Clarion 1968-11-15 Vol 43 No 10

Volume XLIII—No. 10
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, November 15, 1968
Senate seeks financial autonomy
SPIRE editor Gayle McCandless works with two of her
proteges in the SPIRE'S basement office.
Missions focus features
special chapel speakers,
small group discussions
by Steve Marquardt
The Student Senate has passed
a memorandum from Greg Taylor,
Student Association President, cal-ling
for a complete revamping of
the present financial ties with the
college administration. This mem-orandum
is a revision of an earlier
memorandum by Taylor which al-so
passed the senate.
Taylor's second memorandum re-quests
the following: "(1) A student
government fee be collected each
semester from full time students.
The $12.50 initial fee (per semes-ter)
would be established and set
by the Student Association (SA).
(2) Total responsibility for the
use and holding of this fund. (3)
The Business Office to offer coun-sel
regarding the management of
this fund."
Under the present constitution
the senate draws up a budget for
the following year and submits it
to the Business Office in the Col-lege
Building. Here, after passing
through various administrative tun-nels
in competition with ever y
other department's budget, it—
along with the others—emerges a
few thousand dollars lower than
the sum requested. From the col-lege's
general fund money is dis-tributed
throughout the year as
was decided by the administration's
balancing of the budgets.
The action stimulating Taylor's
first of two memorandums was the
withholding of funds designated
for Homecoming by the Business
Office until certain difficulties
were ironed out. Last year's sen-ate
proposed a budget of $29,000,
Students for Urban Involvement
(all) proposed an Urban Concern
Program to the Social Ministries
Committee of the Minnesota Bap-tist
Conference on November 5.
This proposal stimulated the for-mation
of a study committee which
is to define a student based ur-ban
action program January 7.
The study committee will be
composed of two faculty repre-sentatives,
four Bethel students,
and two members of the Social
Ministries Committee. This accom-plishment
was the immediate ob-including
$800 for Homecoming,
to the Business Office.
However, the weighing of the
Student Senate's proposed budget
against the other school depart-ments'
requests resulted in a sum
of $23,000 designated for the sen-ate.
The problem arose when the
Business Office still designated
$800 for Homecoming after de-creasing
the total funds available
to the senate by $600.
Taylor's initial memorandum fol-lowing
Homecoming called for a
two percent cut from the tuition
fee for an autonomous student
government. After the more in-fluential
administrators demon-strated
their noncompliance with
this request on the basis of its
impracticality and wording Taylor
revised the memorandum to accom-odate
a plan for establishing a
semester fee of $12.50 per student
for supporting an autonomous stu-dent
government.
Taylor feels the SA should not
have to compete within the restric-tions
of the general fund for fi-nances
like any department of the
school. He feels that since the SA
is directly a student organization,
the students should appropriate
their own funds as they think best,
and not have to do so with an or-ganization
that must justify its ex-penditures
to the administration.
In his words, "the Student Sen-ate
should justify its actions to
the student body, not the adminis-tration."
Another reason, Taylor feels,
was exemplified to a significant
extent by the action of the Busi-jective
of Students for Urban In-volvement.
SUI began as a response to the
closing of Bethel Center, the Min-nesota
Baptist Conference's only
urban program. The students who
formed SUI interpreted this as a
Conference retreat from an area
vital to American society. The stra-tegy
of SUI has been to develop a
feasible program for student based
based urban action that would at-tract
the support of the Minnesota
Baptist Conference and Bethel
College.
ness Office in freezing the funds
for Homecoming. "If someone
sometime decides we're too radical
they can freeze our budget," he
said. In this way he feels autonomy
will insure a future for student
direction of student affairs.
Other advantages he predicted
in this system involved this over-all
objective stated in his revised
memorandum: ". . . that the stu-dent
government (will be) directly
responsible to those it serves and
those who pay for its services."
Con't on page 3
by Dave Greener
"A yearbook is more than a pic-ture
book. It can be a vital com-munication."
These are some of the
ideas of yearbook editor Gayle Mc-
Candless. In her role as 1969 Spire
editor-in chief, she and her staff
are anticipating a new approach
to the publication of Bethel's an-nual.
The Spire, in Gayle's opinion, is
a communication not only to peo-ple
of the Baptist General Confer-ence
but is also an outreach to
people outside the Conference
without any connection with a
church.
This year the format of that
communication will change. As
Gayle says, "We want the book to
be the students. We want the book
to express what the students feel."
Gayle thus wants the Spire to
The plan SUI presented to the
Social Ministries Committee con-sists
of three phases. The initial
phase will be educational.
It will attempt to orient the in-volved
students to the dynamics
of urban life with emphasis on race
relations, poverty and other urban
problems. This intensive orienta-tion
will be acceptable for aca-demic
credit.
The second phase will involve
students working and living in ur-
Con't on page 5
The new face and issues of mis-sions
will take expression next
week as Bethel students query and
hear from about a dozen mission-aries
scheduled to participate in
the campus World Missions Week.
"A Man Afar Off," 1968 theme
for Le annual missions emphasis,
will be complemented in daily cha-pel
sessions, classroom sessions and
in informal small-group discussions
with the visiting missionaries.
Featured speaker for Tuesday
through Thursday, Nov. 19-21,
chapel services will be Rev. J. F.
Shepherd from Cranford, N. J., a
pastor, lecturer, missions educator
and promoter, and a former mis-sionary
to China and the Philippine
Islands.
Rev. Richard Varberg, a Baptist
General Conference missionary
who is on furlough after his sec-ond
term of service in the Phil-ippine
Islands, will be guest speak-er
at the chapel sessions Monday
and Friday, Nov. 18 and 22.
Several missionaries will be
speaking in class sessions during
the week, upon request of instruc-tors
who feel a missionary's ex-perience
and background would be
relevant to the class area of study.
Dr. Arthur Lewis is in charge of
arranging the classroom sessions.
Instead of the regularly sched-uled
evening sessions that have
been held in previous years, this
year's Mission Week Committee
decided to schedule only informal
dialogue and discussion sessions.
be a more effective mirror of Beth-el
students. She wants it to ac-knowledge
that there are students
on this campus whom Christianity
"turns off" as well as those "who
have had experiences with Christ."
She wants it to portray the Bethel
scene as it is—"the areas of unrest
as well as those of rest."
She also wants the Spire to raise
an attempt to answer certain fun-damental
questions such as: Why is
there a Bethel College? And why
should we be Christians today?
An effective communication, a
real communication — these are
goals for this year's Spire. Yet
there are problems to be surmount-ed
if these hopes are to be ful-filled.
One major difficulty, according
to Gayle, is the small size of this
A committee spokesman said
this method enables students to se-lect
areas that fit their particular
interests. Topics are decided by
the missionaries according to their
personal concerns and major inter-ests.
Students should watch the "Daily
Calendar" for announcements of
the time and location of various
informal missions sessions. Miss
Lillian Ryberg is in charge of co-ordinating
the non-classroom ses-sions.
"To Build A Church," a new
sound-color-motion f i 1 m about
Ethiopia, the conference's "focus
field" for 1968, will be shown
sometime during the week. The
film shows Ethiopia, old and new;
close-up of the Emperor; growing
process of church planting; and
a gripping contest between witch
doctor and hospital dresser.
Preceding the World Missions
Week will be a briefing session
for committee members, mission-aries
and student leaders at 6 p.m.
Saturday in the President's Dining
Room. Other students interested in
attending are to contact Dr. Donald
Larson or one of the other com-mittee
members, Valerie Peterson,
Janice Wyma, John Harms, Dr.
Clarence Bass, or Herman Tegen-feldt.
A feedback session will give an
opportunity for students to voice
their evaluations and comments
on World Missions Week. That
meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 22 in the Coffee
Shop area.
year's staff. While Gayle does not
question their ability—she in fact
praises their performance—she is
apprehensive of a lack of num-bers,
especially of involved assist-ants.
She is particularly apprehen-sive
of an acute lack of good wri-ters.
This year's Spire staff members
include section editors Dean Back-strom
(sports), Joyce Bristow (activ-ities),
Chris Pearson (organization),
Cindy Wells (faculty and staff),
business manager Bonnie Larson,
and photographers Warren Dis-brow
and Donovan Kramer.
Gayle wishes to make it known
that persons interested in assist-ing
with the Spire may contact her
by P.O. 632 or in the Spire office
(in the basement of the college
building).
Students discuss urban involement,
formulate plans for action program
SPIRE editor sees "communication"
as vital objective for 1968 yearbook
Bookstore price
I find it interesting that the New
Bible Commentary, which is ad-vertized
on the back of the New
Bible Dictionary as selling f o r
$8.95, sells in the Bethel Bookstore
for $9.95, with the publisher's price
cut off the jacket.
But I find it even more interest-ing
that I could buy the Commen-tary
at the Northwestern Bookstore
in Har Mar for the publisher's
price of $8.95. Isn't it strange that
a book store (which supposedly is
in it for the money can sell a book
cheaper than Bob Bergerud (who
supposedly is not)?
Chuck Myrbo. Junior
the CLARION
Published weekly' during the academic
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periods, by the students of Bethel
college, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Lynn Bergfalk
Assistant Editor Maurice Zaffke
Layout Editor Sue Bonstrom
News Editor Margie Whaley
Entertainment Editor Chuck Myrbo
Sports Editor Wally Borner
Business Manager Bill Goodwin
Circulation Manager Pat Faxon
Proof Reader Karen Rodberg
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Missions Week aims at challenging
lethargic, inward-turned community
And he who does not take his
cross and follow me is not wor-thy
of me. He who finds his
life will lose it, and he who loses
his life for my sake will find it.
—Matt. 10:38, 39.
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the CLARION Friday, November 15, 1968
"The Student as Nigger 11
finds application where?
"Students are niggers," Gerald Farber says in his essay,
"The Student as Nigger." "When you get that straight, our
schools begin to make sense."
Now you might not think such a statement sounds nice,
you may not think it's proper, and you may even think that it
shouldn't be quoted in the CLARION. You may have even con-ditioned
yourself to dispose of such provocative (and inflama-tory,
absurd, radical, communist-inspired, or improper) state-ments
with an absolute minimum of provocation. The question
of "student as nigger" simply may not be an issue for you
because you'd rather not rock the boat with any kind of dis-turbing
questions.
But some people have attempted, with a minimum of side-stepping,
to face the specific question of whether or not Bethel
students "are niggers." We would answer affirmatively.
Now we're not talking about inequality, like a thirty per-cent
bookstore discount for faculty, or somewhat preferential
treatment by the Food Service for faculty/administration func-tions.
That may be part of it, but it is only a minor part.
We're not even talking about a lack of student participa-tion
in college decision making processes or antagonistic feel-ings
between different groups on campus. Campus interaction
generally takes place in a cordial manner, and students are
being accorded increasing responsibility through student-faculty
committees and other institutional channels.
Rather we are talking about the kind of thing where, in
some places and at some times, a black man has stepped off
the sidewalk to let a white man pass. And we are concerned
with the attitudes of the man who stepped aside and with the
attitudes of the man who expected the other to step aside.
When we speak of the "student as nigger," these are the
things we're talking about because the same attitudes are evi-denced
at Bethel, albeit in subtle and unconscious ways. But
their invisibility scarcely detracts from their effect; they exist
even though we may be unaware of them.
For too many of the more elevated members of the Bethel
community, students are still "boys and girls" who just aren't
on the same plane. The rule of thumb is to talk and work with
students in a paternalistic and condescending way. Treat a stu-dent
as a man only when it's no longer possible to treat him as
a schoolboy. •
Maybe there is some mysterious change in body chemistry
that strikes a schoolboy when he gets his degree, and he walks
off the platform and out into the world a man. Or maybe there
is something threatening (security-wise) in treating a student
as a man or woman, or at least as an equal.
The "good student" is the Uncle Tom who may stand for
nothing but the status quo and a mythical image. Such a stance
allows him to stand self-righteously with the "establishment"
and condemn the student whose Christian conscience has led
him to grapple with difficult social and moral issues. There are
(continued on page 5)
To the Editor:
We'd hate to accuse the Clarion
of being original, and your article
concerning the Straw Vote (Nov. 8)
proved that we don't have to. Your
article seems to us to be a simple
reversal of the attitudes that we
presented in our report.
It appears to be a short, but
necessarily a concise, effort to sum
up our endeavors as a "gallant"
waste of time. But we imagine
that even this attitude falls under
the rather nebulous heading of
"constructive criticism."
It would seem reasonable that
the readers of the Clarion could
ask for facts, of one form or an-other,
to substantiate its allega-tion
that: (1) "It seems apparent
. . . that this poll was not even
a cross-section of Bethel political
opinion." (2) "A boycott of Humph-rey
voters added to the insignifi-cance
of the poll, although the ef-fect
of this influence is incalcula-ble."
Are these observations un-founded
speculation or are they
based on fact?
We, in our report, were the first
to point out that this was by no
means an accurate cross-section of
any group—the Nation, Minnesota,
or any other group other than
Bethel. Bethel is to us a unique
case.
But your observations that the
little to pay each week for the rest of your life.
(The layman is essentially rear-guard in the task
force prepared for the Christian penetration of
society. )
How will it be proclaimed ? Through gospel
bombs, blimps and broadcasts, and any other im-personal,
institutionalized, indirect media which
our technologized society may develop.
( Even the computer helps us now to measure
the "spiritual effectiveness" of our missionary en-deavor.)
Personal, direct and face-to-face con-frontation
with the Christian message seems to
be on the way out.
We have not yet learned to be a redeeming
community in the world. Our proclamation is pat
answers — "laws" — and the proclaimers are de-nounced
as hyprocrites who are themselves in
bondage to the establishment, unable to find free-dom
and fulfillment in Christ, the Redeemer.
Our sharing is mostly in the collection plate,
not over coffee, or in the dorm, or in the forum.
Our service is mostly spectatorship or per
trumpet trios, chalk talks, ventriloquized
Bible stories, not in community concern.
What is the answer ? Can anything be done?
World Missions Week is just one part of that
ongoing process in which these questions are ex-amined.
"The man afar off" comes a bit closer, where
we can see and understand his need. The mission-ary,
another "man afar off," also moves a bit
nearer, and we gain a new appreciation for what
he is trying to do with his life. And perhaps there
is even a sense in which Christ Himself is "a
man afar off," and we want Him to come much
closer, to become much more prominent in our
decision-making.
To this end the World Missions Committee
plans and prays, hoping that each member of the
Bethel community will gain some new insights,
ask some new questions, see some new alterna-tives,
and make some new decisions.
Two directions .. .
"There was a time when the servant of Christ walked in
the pagan world in weakness, subject to masters whom the
servant could not control. He lived in a culture and an environ-ment
where Christian discipleship was a radical and unwel-come
novelty.
"Christians were considered strange and dangerous people
who were disloyal to the notions about life that everyone else
accepted. Unique and glaring differences were seen in their
willingness to be servants of God for the sake of the world, and
servants of the world for Christ's sake. It was risky, and a bit
exciting to be a servant in those days.
"There also have been times when the servant of Christ
walked in a world conditioned to Christian ways of thinking.
He walked in strength. He controlled the situation. He could
decide when he would serve and for how long, on what condi-tions
he would serve, the kind of service he would render, and
the terms for continuing service.
"He could gather behind walls of his own buildings to plan
strategy. Then he could come out into the world when he was
ready and carry out a program or project. He could see if it
was well received, and if it was not, he could retire to his strong
position to plan things more carefully. . ." (Portraits of A
Servant - John Schultz).
World Missions Week: which alternative are you going to
offer us?
attendance
To the Editor:
In last week's Clarion there ap-peared
a letter questioning the
openmindedness of the Bethel fac-ulty
in not attending the John
Ylvisaker concert. I tend to dis-agree
that many students watched
the doors for faculty members.
Furthermore I wonder how many
students were actually disappoint-ed
over the few number of facul-ty
present. Why should Bethel fac-ulty
be judged by their lack of at-tendance
at a Senior Class spon-sored
concert of a varied nature.
I also think that the "higher
echelons" realize fully the 20th
century means of expression. The
recent New Folk chapel hour illus-trates
this point.
We all are entitled to our own
means of expression but let's not
be taking one particular event and
work up steam for criticism against
the school administration and fac-ulty
in general.
D. W. Johnson
Senior
pretations of the vote totals and
their significance; this is gener-ally
accepted as the privilege of
the opinion writer.
BETHEL FORUM
Vote analysts blast CLARION Ylvisaker
Straw Vote "was not even a cross-section
of Bethel political opinion"
is beyond the legitimate bounds of
speculation. Facts, not speculations,
is what we as readers expect from
the Clarion.
The purpose of our report was
to provoke thought on the part of
the reader. If the Clarion's article
is the valid reader's response, then
we have failed—we would openly
admit this. But if the Clarion's
views its own Straw Vote as merely
"fun" and refuses to look beyond
the obvious to seek any under-standing,
then maybe it's the Clar-ion
who has failed.
Tom Ford, Freshman
Ralph C. Sheppard, Senior
Editor's note : The article in
question was not a news story,
as Mr. Ford and Mr. Sheppard
have apparently assumed, but
was an interpretive article put
on the editorial page, the normal
place for opinion or editorial
writing.
Ford, who heads the campus
YGOPers, and Sheppard both
helped tabulate and analyze re-sults.
The CLARION'S reporter
felt no obligation to religiously
adhere to the interpretations
made in their analysis, and con-sequently
made his own inter-by
Dr. Donald N. Larson
This campus is not quite ready to burst apart
at the seams. On occasion it rocks and rolls, but
hardly from the pressures and pulsations of Chris-tian
commitment and missionary zeal.
Christian missions are not dead here: they
just haven't come to life in very visible ways.
A lonely student can still wander about with
little sense that he belongs to a dynamic Christian
community. Only here and there is intimate shar-ing
of Christian experience apparent.
Only a handful take the risk of marching by
the prophet's drum. The dignity of man makes
a nice topic for a theme, but is hardly a reality.
Social concern and involvement are "in," but per-haps
motivated to a great degree by desire for
attention.
The gospel has not yet been translated into
community-wide action. Like talking-to-them-selves-
congregations all through the Bible belt, of
which Bethel is the buckle, as someone put it,
we are happy just to be a community basking in
the sunlight of our salvation and righteousness.
Christian content does not yet fill the forms
which current protest is taking. Contact with the
world that God loves is an option, hardly an
obligation.
Why is it this way? Whose fault is it ? No-body's,
or maybe everybody's: perhaps we are
just reaping what we have sown.
We have spread the notion far and wide that
evangelism is mainly a matter of proclamation,
and those whom I support can proclaim salvation
to those who have never heard—and whom I have
never met—through all sorts of impersonal me-dia.
Who will proclaim it? Clergymen and single
ladies, but not me : I'm not called.
Where will it be done? Across oceans and na-tional
boundaries, over there somewhere, but not
here : I'm not there.
What will be proclaimed? Salvation by and
by, with little more than a confession down, and
From her dormitory-window view of Bethel Campus,
Mari; Sorley puts the finishing touches to a pencil sketch
of the Japanese coastline as seen from her window in
her homeland.
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She walked into Bodien with a
suitcase early one morning. There
wasn't any hot water in Hagstrom
and she wanted to take a shower.
Maybe it was unusually unique, but
something in her intent seemed
real.
Adopted by the Sorley family
missionaries in Wakayama, Gobo,
Japan, Marji has experienced a
duo-ethnic background. The child
of a Japanese mother and an Amer-ican
father, Marji was accepted in-to
an American missionary fam-ily
and was educated both in Jap-anese
and boarding schools.
Too young for boarding school
and a bit too "incorrigible" (as
she says) to be taught at home,
Marji attended the Japanese school
for her first four years. When she
was ten years old, the Sorleys
came to America on furlough,
much to Marji's disadvantage. Not
having been exposed to intensive
English, she found it hard to ac-cept
school in the United States.
Upon returning to Japan Marji
entered boarding school and even-tually
attended the Japanese Chris-tian
Academy for missionaries'
Friday, November 15, 1968
high schoolers. While there she
learned much that wasn't included
in her studies. Christian pitfalls
such as hypocrisy and false uni-formity
were evidenced.
Knowing Japanese ethnic values
and facing American idealism with-in
Christian understanding has
presented problems for Marji. She
has acquired Japanese behavior
from her early schooling. Rather
willing to lie about her true feel-ings
than to offend someone, she
finds it difficult to accept the
American outspokeness.
The Japanese will criticize their
possessions only to seem humble,
while the Americans praise their
property to seem grateful. This
has been a factor for Marji to cope
with, having a partial concept of
the two ways of life.
Marji has discovered that the
Americans have presented them-selves
as having the "right way,"
and some of the missionaries have
extended this feeling. Japanese
college students are especially cri-tical
of the United States and
often consult the "foreigners" on
race issues and Viet Nam.
Japan is efficient regardless of
its size, and usually Americans are
considered intruders trying to
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bring things that are useless. What
then can American missionaries
give the Japanese?
In her present environment at
Bethel Marji still is the inquiring
and formative individual she has
been in Japan. From a long line
of family members who have at-tended
Bethel a tradition has been
established. Therefore Marji is
here with us. However, she feels
that it is right for her to be at
Bethel.
She appreciates the atmosphere
of an 'expected but not manda-tory"
chapel. Often in her approach
to a real relationship with Christ
Marji became disillusioned with
people who could discuss church
history and doctrine but never
their personal closeness to God.
She feels that a person who choos-es
to remain aloof from God will
have a better chance to realize his
need for personal contact with
Him.
Marji is an art major with a pur-pose.
She wants to feel what other
people do and to be able to relate
to them. Through art she aims to
acquire a sensitivity uncommon to
most people. Marji expresses her
goal as, "Discernment is a gift of
Career overseas the Holy Spirit, and I want it!"
Marji examines Bethel environment,
reflects on Japanese background
Lewis views missionary preparation God's
by M. Lachler Dr. Lewis, you received your M.O. Gordon Divinity School the most mission
This week's interview is with
Dr. Arthur Lewis, Associate Pro-fessor
of Old Testament at Beth-el,
who recently has served as a
missionary to Portugal.
Dr. Lewis, what was your "job"
on the mission field?
I responded in 1952 to a need
for Bible teachers in the Semina-rio
Teologico Baptista and joined
a small staff of two USA and three
Portuguese part-time profs. Be-sides
building the school, curricu-lum,
buildings, etc., we sponsored
Laymen's courses, evangelical pub-lications,
youth conferences, camp-ing
programs, church founding,
and evangelistic outreach.
In which ways were you pre-pared
for this varied program?
I found my evangelistic opportu-nities
backed up by many years
of preaching, starting back in High
School. College, Seminary and
graduate studies became useful for
the classroom needs of our Semi-nary.
War experiences were of im-portance
in witnessing and person-al
work. Strong home training in
the Word and worship gave me
confidence in the directing of my
own family and personal life.
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from Harvard and your Ph.D. from
Brandeis University. Are these real-ly
necessary on the foreign field?
The M.A. is considered the same
as a doctor's degree in most of
the Latin countries. It definitely
gives the worker an advantage in
dealing with university students
or in any kind of institutional work.
What college majors do you feel
would best equip a student con-sidering
a missionary career over-seas?
For Roman Catholic dominated
lands a degree in European History
is directly applicable to the mis-sionary's
task. English, speech, or
journalism apply to the constant
demands for publishing, writing,
and translating. All areas would
profit by the knowledge of anthro-pology.
Is Seminary training absolutely
necessary?
I consider my three years at
"Hundreds of U.S. Colleges and
universities will be participating in
a Fast For Freedom Thursday, No-vember
21. The annual event, which
is sponsored by the National Stu-dent
Association, involves students
voluntarily bypassing an evening
meal in order that the profits
might be given to minority group
projects throughout the United
States.
Bethel students are invited to
sign up for the Fast Monday and
Tuesday of next week, either in the
valuable of all graduate study. The
six or seven basic fields dealt with
in Seminary are all vital to the
balanced ministry of the church
leader. The missionary becomes an
administrator, research person, a
source of knowledge on Bible,
Church History, methodology, evan-gelism,
theology . . . you name
it!
Is it possible or feasible for a
college student to take part of his
college work in a foreign land —
sort of a trial run for Missions?
A tremendous idea, and I would
like to see more Bethel students
going out for part of their college
or graduate work.
Many foreign universities wel-come
USA students, give scholar-ships,
and some allow all the work
done in English, as in India, Leba-non,
etc. A view of the foreign sit-uation
often brings a real sense of
urgency to God's call.
cafeteria or at the ticket booth.
Those not on the meal plan are
invited to contribute. Possible al-ternatives
for a program on that
evening are under consideration.
Coordinators for the Fast, Ed
Soule and Dave Shupe, hope that
participation this year will far sur-pass
last year's. They mentioned
that the coincidence of the Fast
being during Mission Week should
provide both more incentive and
meaning for participation.
continued from page 1
Students a n d administrators
have raised important questions
concerning the memorandum. Pres-ident
Lundquist and Dean Olson
evaluated the issue optimistically
from their points of view, and
agreed that the present system is
open to review. Olson, along with
several students, questioned the
advantage given the students by
the proposed extra tax.
Olson said, "The administration
does not want to exercise patern-alism"
but that the present system
"can work if we all get together
and see how it does work." He re-commended
much discussion and
awareness on the part of the stu-dent
body, and possibly even an
open forum for clarification, de-fense
and testing of ideas.
by Jonathan P. Larson
The whole point is this, creation has fallen apart at the
seams; its fabric has been invaded by rot. If nature is a wonder
of delicate order, it is also convulsing in chaos. So nature and his-tory
are brothers. And if nature is askew, then history too is run
amuk. As for man, the spindle of history has flung each of us
away from the center. Babel has destined you and me to speak
our separate tongues, and none of us speaks the language of God.
Thomas Wolfe has said it for us all in his novel, Look Home-ward
Angel, "Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?"
W. B. Yeats has penned the lines in "The Second Coming," "Things
fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon
the world." In a recent rock hit, the Beatles chant together, "We
all live in a yellow submarine."
In face of the reeling obscurantism of the contemporary arts,
the obsessively subjective modern philosophies, and the surging
forces of anarchism we are left with but one conclusion about
ourselves, that we have lost our oneness. History, the story of man,
is not so much a symphony as it is a cacophony. So where is the
center of this mess ? Where is the sense of this maze?
There is a back door to Eden, you know. God is on a mission
in this world. And man is his agent. A new center has been estab-lished.
The Carpenter's purpose is to bring back into order the
whole universe; to eliminate the distance that separates us from
each other.
"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were afar off have been
brought near in the blood of Christ." Ephesians.
God's mission through man frees all nature from the bondage
of confusion. Nature is no longer the victim of history. And man
is no longer doomed to despoil himself and nature. God never
promised man a vista of all history; an understanding of all as-pects
of his program. To discuss missions as our program for our
world is extremely dangerous.
Who knows, God's mission in the world someday may call
on God's men to clean up our polluted waters. We know this though,
that God is pulling things together again, and he has begun with
men.
Senate moves for purse power
Freedom Fast participants help
finance minority group projects
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Friday, November 15, 1968
Rev. Richard Varberg and Rev. Marwin Lindstedt, conference missionaries to the Philippines,
scan several recent evangelical publications of their field. Rev. Varbergs holds a hymnal —the
first printed gospel volume in the Masbatian dialect.
Speaks in chapel
Varberg tells of work in Philippines
• ••
M issionary Sketches
Former China missionary
speaks in chapel service
Even though Rev. Richard Var-berg
had originally decided that
he would be a farmer when he
grew up, his ultimate missionary
commitment has been blessed as he
has attempted to "sow the Word of
God in the hearts of Filipinos."
Rev. Varberg will be one of the
featured chapel speakers during
Bethel's World Missions Week. He
will be sharing with Bethel stu-dents
some of the unusual accom-plishments
and experiences of mis-sions
in the Philippine Islands.
Rev. and Mrs. Varberg went to
the Philippines in 1958, and after
a period of study of the Cebuano
languarge were engaged in an ev-angelistic
ministry in Tuburan, Ce-bu,
the main island of the Philip-pines.
During their second term on the
field they have been working in
Masbate City, on the Island of
Masbate, where he served as pas-tor
of the local Baptist church un-til
a Filipino pastor was called.
Masbate island, in the central
Philippines, has a total population
of 450,000 and had only one full
time missionary when the Var-bergs
arrived in 1960. Major evan-gelistic
campaigns were held in
several cities. Naw four churches
Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Lindstedt,
alumni of Bethel, have been mis-sionaries
to the Philippines since
1954. Their most recent work has
been teaching at the Baptist Theo-logical
College on Cebu. The aim
of this college is to train Filipinos
in Christian leadership.
Though native Philippines are
doing much of the preaching and
teaching, Rev. Lindstedt feels that
the mission field is still a chal-lenge
to today's young people. He
feels that many young adults no
longer consider foreign missions
as a challenging growing work. In
the Philippines though, Lindstedt
feels that there are many areas
which are still almost totally ne-glected.
Sixty percent of the population in
the Philippines is under the age of
20. This large percentage has al-have
been established and Rev.
Varberg has also been involved in
construction of church buildings
and missionary residences.
Study of the local language, Mas-batinio,
was necessary for an ef-fective
work on this island. Rev.
Varberg supervised the translation
and publication of the first evan-gelical
book, a hymnal, to be print-ed
in that language.
With the necessary funds and
help, Rev. Varberg hopes to soon
be able to translate and print some
tracts and the Gospel of St. John.
The Varbergs also helped to es-tablish
a youth center in the Mas-bate
Baptist Church, which is with-in
a few blocks of four colleges,
five high schools and six elemen-tary
schools. As many as 1,500
youth have "checked-in" at the
center per week for bookstore,
library and study area services
as well as various recreational
facilities.
Aside from his direct missionary
tasks, Rev. Varberg served as a
member of the counsel and guid-ance
committee of the Masbate
Community Council and served a
year as treasurer of the council.
An honor was given him recently
by this secular group when they
most been neglected by the mission-aries.
Rev. Lindstedt feels that it is
vital to reach this segment of the
population soon, especially with the
growing popularity of Communism.
Though Communism is illegal in
some of the major universities, its
underground power is becoming
very influential.
Besides teaching, Mrs. Lindstedt
has been active in evangelistic
work throughout the Philippines.
Mrs. Lindstedt is usually busy
teaching their five children in the
morning and teaching at the Col-lege
in the afternoon.
Rev. Lindstedt came to Bethel in
1946 after living in China where
his parents were missionaries. He
is now looking forward to return-ing
and renewing the challenge of
the mission field.
recognized him as a "son of Mas-bate"
and requested his permanent
assignment there.
Rev. Varberg's first experience
in missions came between his jun-ior
and senior years at Bethel
College, when he spent the summer
working with the Home Mission
Board in Mountain View, Alaska.
Bergfalk
Assam
Helen Bergfalk was a thirty year
old school teacher when she left
the states and went to the North
Bank in Assam, India. There, dur-ing
her first years in India, she
taught school for missionary and
other children in Darjeeling after
her experience in the states.
Miss Bergfalk did not feel a
real definite call to leave Minneso-ta,
where she had been teaching
in small rural grade schools, and
go to India. However, she saw the
need there and decided to go, feel-ing
that the Lord would close the
doors if He wanted her to stay at
home or go elsewhere.
The major focus of her work
during the twenty years she spent
in 'India has been literature, in-cluding
such things as Sunday and
Bible school lessons for both chil-dren
and adults.
Working most recently in Rowta
before the Assam field was closed,
Miss Bergfalk was often alone, the
only missionary in that vicinity.
Due to lack of good equipment and
materials, she spent many long and
tedious hours running literature
off by hand, gluing together small
flannel graph figures, and so on
with an endless variety of often
menial tasks.
Since her return from India,
Miss Bergfalk has been involved in
deputation work. In the future her
time will be devoted to a continu-ation
of the literature work she
had previously been doing in As-sam,
although she will remain in
the states.
"Missionary statesman" could
well describe Rev. J. F. Shepherd,
pastor, educator, and former mis-sionary,
who will be a featured
speaker during Bethel's World
Missions Week.
A man who is well known among
missionaries and is conversant with
the live issues regarding the mis-sion
of the church, Rev. Shepherd
is also known for his understand-ing
of and approach to student
concerns.
Rev. Shepherd received his bach-elor
of science degree from Hart-ford
Seminary Foundation, his mas-ters
degree from Kennedy School
of Missions and his bachelor of
divinity from Bethel Theological
Seminary. He also attended the
Missionary Training Institute a t
Nyack, N. Y., and earned his S.T.M.
from Union Theological Seminary.
He has been a visiting lecturer
at the School of World Mission of
Fuller Theological Seminary, and
was one of 10 principal speakers
at the Congress on Church's World
Wide Mission in 1966 at Wheaton,
He was a pastor in New Haven,
Conn., before going to China in
1946 as a missionary of The Chris-tian
and Missionary Alliance. When
the missionaries had to leave
China, he went to the Philippine
Islands where he taught in Ebene-zer
Bible School in Zamboanga.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Lachler have
completed three four-year terms
as missionaries in Brazil. Their
main concern is with the young
people and college students.
The Lord has led them to work
with the Brazilian Inter-Varsity,
which is an interdenominational or-ganization
very similar to Inter-
Varsity in United States. Talking
and working among the students
has created many opportunities for
the Lachlers. They have gained an
understanding of the students and
their needs.
Also, they have found that be-ing
involved as students them-selves,
they have been accepted by
the young people on a level which
gives them close ties and conse-quently,
their approach can be
more effective.
Although the Catholic church is
still the predominant religious
group in Brazil, the Lachlers have
found that the relationship be-tween
Catholics and Protestants
is changing. The primary reason
for this is that the Brazilian con-stitution
now contains a clause
which guarantees religious free-dom
for every Brazilian.
In their work among students,
they have found that Catholics are
much easier to work with. Cath-olics
are becoming more tolerant
as the church is liberalized. This
gives the missionaries opportuni-ties
to present the gospel on an in-tellectual
level to people who are
sensitive to religion.
In many ways the Brazilian re-sents
the American in his coun-
Rev. J. F. Shepherd
Back in the United States he
served as chairman of the Missions
department of St. Paul Bible Col-lege.
While again in the Philip-pines,
he was asked to direct the
Jaffray School of Missions at Ny-ack,
N.Y.
For the past two years Rev.
Shepherd has served as personnel
secretary of the Latin America
Mission. He recently became pas-tor
of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance Church at Cranford, N.J.
try. This seems to be a result of
the American's subconscious effort
to change the culture of South
America to the way he wants it.
As Mr. and Mrs. Lachler have
experienced, the way to reach the
people of that land is to become
part of them and accept their cul-ture.
They have found this ap-proach
to be much more effective
than a preaching ministry.
Their plans for furlough include
further schooling, graduate work,
and deputation. They will be re-turning
to Brazil next summer and
are at the present time formula-ting
plans for their mission to the
Brazilian people.
Karl Lachler
Linstedts -- Philippines
Lachlers -- Brazil
Missionary Sketches
Rev. Gustave Tillman and Rev. George Johnson contemplate
the future opportunities and needs in the wide-open field of
the Philippine Islands. The field of Assam, India, where Rev.
Johnson served for 17 years, was closed recently to several
missionary families by order of the Indian government.
George Johnsons -- Assam
"Confidence that one has done
his part and faith that the Lord
will carry on the work and lead
to other open fields has helped
to encourage the conference mis-sionaries
recently expelled from
Assam, India," according to Rev.
George S. Johnson.
Rev. Johnson served for about 17
years as an educational mission-ary
on the North Bank of Assam
after earning his bachelor of sci-ence
degree in education from the
University of Minnesota, in addi-tion
to his bachelor of arts from
Bethel College and his bachelor of
divinity from the Seminary.
Besides principalship of Bible
Schools in Assam, Rev. Johnson
has in recent years been especially
interested in literature work and
developing and translating simple
"It was a drastic change from
the western culture to an oriental
culture," said Rev. J. Warren John-son,
who was commissioned as one
of the first conference missionaries
to Assam, India, in 1946. Rev. and
Mrs. Johnson were in an evangel-istry
on the North Bank of the
Brahmaputra River, and Rev. John-son
also served as administrator
of the Baptist Christian Hospital
in Tezpur.
In the summer of 1967 the John-sons
were one of three missionary
familes ordered to leave Assam as
part of the government's program
of "Indianization" of missions.
They were then requested by the
Board of Foreign Missions to go to
Ethiopia for a short time to assist
in missionary work there.
In Ethiopia Rev. Johnson began
by working with the business end
of the mission. He then served as
Warren Johnson
Bible correspondence courses for
the Assamese Christians.
His wife, the former Dorothy
Drotz, who also attended Bethel
Seminary and served in Assam for
two years before they were mar-ried,
has been a nurse in charge
of mission dispensaries in Assam.
In their deputation work since
the Johnsons returned to the U.S.
in August, they have constantly
emphasized the need for prayer
for strength and Christian leader-ship
of those nationals who have
been entrusted to continue their
work in hospitals, Bible schools
and other areas where missionar-ies
have sowed the seed in that
country.
Rev. Johnson plans to work to-ward
his master of divinity at
Bethel.
pastor of Christ Chapel in Addis
Ababa, and later went to Ambo
where he assisted with the admin-istration
of the Door of Life Hospi-tal,
as well as taking part in the
local church.
After more than 20 years on a
foreign mission field, one would
expect a re-assignment to another
to be a difficult adjustment. Sur-prisingly,
Rev. Johnson said there
were many similar culture patterns
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Urban action
continued from page 1
ban communities such as the Near
North Side of Minneapolis or the
Dale-Selby area of St. Paul. This
part of the program will probably
include two semesters. The final
phase will be evaluation of the
program and transition of the ef-fort
to students entering the pro-gram
for the next year.
From this basis the new study
committee will define in detail an
urban program and establish the
structure necessary to implement
it.
SUI members who drafted the
proposal were Dennis Olson, Larry
Day, Jan Wyma, Maurice Zaffke
and Arnie Bergstrom. Bergstrom
chaired the committee while Day
coordinated efforts to implement
the decisions of the group.
Several faculty members were
involved in the group, especially
Richard Steinhaus from the Sociol-ogy
Department and Richard Eric-son
from the Social Work Depart-ment.
Rev. and Mrs. Gus Tillman rep-resent
the Conference missionar-ies
to the Philippine Islands dur-ing
Bethel's World Missions Week.
The Tillmans are both former Beth-el
students and Rev. Tillman gradu-ated
from Bethel Seminary in 1954.
At the time of graduation Till-man
and his wife, Mary, still didn't
know if it was God's will for them
to become foreign missionaries.
Looking back to those months of
indecision Rev. Tillman says "I
was hesitant, because so many had
promised to follow the Lord and
failed."
During the fall of 1955 on a
trip to Minnesota, Rev. Tillman
felt a deep conviction that God
wanted him to be a missionary,
When he returned home he found
that his wife had had a similar
experience on the same day. And
so the Tillmans made the decision
to follow the Lord to a foreign
mission field.
The Tillmans were appointed by
the Board of Foreign Missions Sep-
Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Kern have
been on the mission field in Ethio-pia
since September, 1964. They
spent ten months intensively study-ing
the local Amharic language.
Because Amharic is so different
from English, they found that be-coming
accustomed to it was quite
difficult, and that it takes hard
work and discipline to learn Am-haric.
Motivation was found to be
most important when mastering a
new language.
Rev. Kern taught at the Dresser
Bible School, assisted in the nurses
training program of the Door of
Life Hospital, and also taught at
the yearly Rainy Season Bible
School. This Bible school project
covered all the mission stations in
Ethiopia. Mrs. Kern worked with
the women in the nearby areas be-sides
teaching their own children.
The type of religion that is com-monly
practiced in Ethiopia is
increasingly popular in the United
States and European countries.
Many famous personalities have
traveled to the East for meditation
and consultation with various spiri-tual
mystics.
In Ethiopia, it is common for
people of all classes to seek out
a spirit medium and present him
with gifts of flowers, grain, or
cattle. Often a long pilgrimage
is made to the "Dumfa," not in
small groups, but rather large pro-
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Friday, November 15, 1968
tember 16, 1958, and they began
their first term in the Philippines
seven months later. For the past
four years the Tillman family has
been the only Baptist missionaries
on the island of Bohol.
A lack of personnel presents a
big problem to the Tillmans as
they work in the Philippines. And
Rev. Tillman says that one of his
main purposes of this furlough is
to recruit more workers.
The Tillmans found that their
biggest personal problem in the
Philippines was adapting to the
cultural shock. But after living
there for some time, they learned
that many of the differences were
beneficial.
Rev. Tillman has some advice to
offer to Bethel students consider-ing
missionary work. First, "pre-pare
yourself by getting a good
academic background," and second-ly,
"get some in service experi-ence.
Past pracitcal experience with
your talents is invaluable."
Gerald Kern
cessions which are colorful in
dress as well as in song.
At the present the Kerns are re-siding
in St. Paul and continuing
their studies. They are also taking
part in the deputation program
among the churches of the Baptist
General Conference.
Dana Larson
Larsons --
Assam
Rev. Dana Larson, who has been
a missionary to the people of As-sam,
India, for 18 years, will leave
the states in December for lan-guage
study in Costa Rica before
he and his family will be re-assigned
to Argentina.
Rev. and Mrs. Larson and their
eight children had lived at Dhemaji
in the Lakhimpur District on the
North Bank of Assam. There they
endeavored to establish a Christian
community through much informal
contact with people in markets,
shops, homes and local places of
worship.
Churches were formed at Goga-mukh
and Benenagora where they
also maintained two dispensaries,
which are also leper clinics, to
supply the physical and spiritual
needs of many tribal people.
Although the Larsons were a-mong
the missionary families or-dered
by the government to leave
the country, they remain optimis-tic
about the continued progress
of the mission work in Assam un-der
the competent national leaders.
When they returned to the Unit-ed
States last year, one of the
Larson's daughters, Betty, stayed
in Assam to complete her high
school work. Their son, Tim, is a
sophomore at Bethel College.
Rev. Larson expects to be as-signed
to evangelism work in one
of the three provinces of Argentina
where conference missionaries are
working, and anticipates working
with the Crusade of the Americas
movement in that country.
Warren Johnsons switch fields
Tillmans see need in Philippines
Kerns -- Ethiopia
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Bethel's version of "student as nigger" (Editorial, can't)
(continued from page 2)
prescribed bounds for independent thought—stay within them
and you're secure and "good."
At Bethel, the student as nigger is the result of a misdi-rected
benevolence that finds a paternalistic outlet. But a
growing willingness by many administrators, faculty members,
and students to meet respectfully as mature individuals on
equal ground lends an atmosphere of hope to the future. If
Bethel is to have an effective Christian impact on society, all
members of the community truly need to be "one in Christ
Jesus."
After all, students are people, too.
Day and Olson consult Steinhaus on ideas for involving students in urban affairs.
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Friday, November 15, 1968
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A YOUNG INSPIRING SHOW
FRED WARING
AND
ALL THE PENNSYLVANIANS
(50 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS)
MINNEAPOLIS AUDITORIUM
WEDNESDAY -
NOVEMBER 20 - 8:00 P.M.
Picture a movie musical with
your favorite stars in the leads.
Frank Sinatra and Julie Andrews
will have to do. Frank and Julie
part company after a budding ro-mance
turns sour. Five years pass.
During that time both Frank and
Julie realize that it was the sour
that was phoney—the romance was
real.
But the two have lost track of
each other, apparently for good.
Then, in a beautiful night club in
New York (or Paris or London)
Frank sees Julie across the room
and with the help of a 42-piece
orchestra, breaks into "Some En-chanted
Evening."
Now forget about what Frank
and Julie are doing for a minute
and look around at the restaur-ant.
Hold that image in the back of
your mind while you imagine that
you have taken Snelling Avenue
to the freeway, the freeway to the
airport, and that you have then
gone fifteen miles further west
and five miles further south to
the relatively rural area of Min-nesota
which includes the towns of
Shakopee, Chaska, and Chanhassen.
Now look around again.
It seems practically impossible,
but out there in the unlikely town
of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is a res-taurant-
theatre-night club that
should have starred in that musi-cal.
It's the Chanhassen Frontier,
an infant of six months that prom-ises
to pull the Twin Cities' enter-tainment
center of gravity a good
deal to the southwest.
The Frontier's main attraction is
the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre,
which seats 600 people at tables
amphitheater-fashion in a half cir-cle
around a stage. The doors open
at 6:15 p.m. for dining. If the
"roast sirloin of choice beef in
mushroom sauce" is representa-tive,
the food is excellent. Every-one
is supposed to have finished
eating by 8:15 for the beginning
of the play.
The current production is "Ar-senic
and Old Lace," a comedy
about a family that couldn't quite
bring itself to produce anyone sane.
Insanity more than runs in the fam-ily;
it "practically gallops."
Grandfather Brewster was a mad
scientist. Teddy Brewster thinks
he's Teddy Roosevelt. Jonathan is
a sadist who has been turned into
a double for Boris Karlof by a
drunk plastic surgeon. But the
stars of the show are two elderly
sponsers, Abby and Martha Brew-ster,
who bring peace to lonely
old men by giving them elderberry
wine spiked with arsenic.
The play is done surprisingly
professionally. Only a couple of
characters and they are minor, are
noticeably out of place on stage.
John Hoyt does a very good job
as Jonathan, and Carol Huston and
Jan Maddox are even better as the
lovably murderous old maids. To-gether
the dinner and the play
make an extremely entertaining
evening.
When the play is over and you
have been entertained, walk
around and prepare yourself to
be awed. The theater takes up
only a fraction of the space in the
Frontier complex.
There's the Downstairs, and
there's the Bronco Bar, and there's
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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE character Teddy, left, is
played by Tom Sherohman, with Carol Houston, center,
and Jan Maddux, right, as the two gentle but deadly
spinsters who spike their elderberry wine with arsenic.
Waring brings 50 year history
to Minneapolis performance
Fifty-two years ago in Tyrone,
Pennsylvania, a Penn State Engi-neering
student named Fred War-ing,
his brother Tom, and two
friends formed a dance band. Two
banjos, a piano and a set of drums
wouldn't get many bookings now,
but musical tastes were different
fifty-two years ago.
The band got its big break when
it was hired to play in the overflow
ballroom at a J-hop in Detroit,
Michigan. They were so impres-sive
that everyone at the hop tried
to get from the big ballroom into
the little one.
After that the group grew quick-ly,
both in popularity and in size,
and it is now billed as "Fred War-ing
and the Pennsylvanians," which
includes a 20-piece orchestra and
a choral group. Waring always tries
to keep his show contemporary;
it now ranges from popular to semi-classical.
He will be giving a concert at
8 p.m. November 20 at the Minne-apolis
Auditorium. Tickets will be
$3.50, $4.50, and $5.50, but Bethel
students will get a discount. Con-tact
P.O. 582 for details.
In Tanuary, 1964, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
hit the top of the charts and boys started to
take the grease and the frills out of their hair.
By spring the Beatles had accomplished the re-culous
feat of putting five of their songs in the
op ten at the same time, and the people who were
saying that the Beatles couldn't last soon began
to be afraid that they would.
They did ; but they have lost the innocence of
at big beat and become one of the biggest in-fluences
on the pop culture of the sixties. They
freed /mil from crewcuts and business suits. They
made a permanent mark on movie-making with
"A Hard Day's Night." "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band" was the first real indication
that rock and roll would turn out to be signifi-cant.
Now they have focused their sights on the
an'mated cartoon, and will soon release the movie-length
"Yellow Submarine." The film tells the
story of Pepperland, a land whose main resources
are "sun, music, laughter, and love."
But Pepperland is attacked by the dastardly
Blue Meanies, "led by a music-loather, allergic to
love." Pepperland's Lord High Mayor asks Old
Fred, conductor of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band, to go for help in the Yellow
Submarine.
He ends up in Liverpool, home of John, Paul,
George, and Ringo, who go with him to Pepper-land
and conquer the Meanies, restoring love, song,
and color to the ravaged countryside.
It sounds like a beautiful movie, but it is a
movie nevertheless and this is the Bethel College
Clarion, so why the story ?
Here's the epilogue to the paperback of "Yel-low
Submarine :"
Long live Pepperland.
But
There are other Pepperlands to be found.
Here, there, anywhere.
Listen, and when you hear :
Lovely day, isn't it ?
Be my guest.
May I help you ?
Let's not argue . . . etc.
You'll know you've found one.
Please remember.
For every Pepperland you encounter—
You can be sure there are Meanies in the
vicinity.
Oh, they may not be blue, orange, green,
purple—
Whatever their color, they despise friendship,
love, music.
And they'll do whatever they can to stamp
them out.
They have got to be held back.
Who will protect your own private
Pepperland ?
Only you can say that.
End of epilogue. Starting next week there will
be a column in the Clarion that will attempt to
brief you on upcoming and just-past entertain-ment
events. It will be called, in humble tribute
to the Beatles, "Protection for Pepperland."
There's no place like .. .
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Annual Pops concert takes
listener on worldwide trip
"Around the World in Ninety
Minutes" is the theme of Bethel's
annual Pops concert, which will be
held 8 p.m. Friday in the field-house.
The band concert will fea-ture
a wide spectrum of music de-signed
for entertainment and re-laxation.
Music from many nations will
give the listener a dashing panor-amic
view of the world, and the
program 'will include numerous se-lections
by European composers.
Among them will be: Jean Sibel-ius'
"Finlandia," "Clair de Lune"
by Debussy, and "Colonel Bogey
March" by Kenneth Alford.
Representing Russian music are
compositions from two national
composers as the band plays Mous-by
Chuck Myrbo
Rock and roll has come a long
way since Ricky Nelson, in the last
five minutes of "Ozzie and Har-riet,"
sang 'Hello, Mary Lou" to a
swaying, swooning crowd of high
school girls. The Doors gave a
concert Sunday night in the Min-neapolis
Auditorium, with lyrics
that might have turned Mary Lou
off, and a sound that would have
turned her on.
That sound is the product of
three musicians: John Densmore
on the drums, Robby Krieger on
the guitar, and Ray Manzarek on
the keyboard. There is no bass
guitar. Manzarek provides the bass
by playing a piano bass with his
right hand while he plays the or-gan
with his left hand and his
feet.
The sound is complete, and it
is powerful. It is loud, but it is
Chanhassen
from page 6
the Courtyard, each of which is
big enough and cool enough to be
a separate establishment. And
there are several areas that aren't
finished yet. There is no place like
that place within 500 miles of
this place.
Tickets (which include the meal
and the play) are $7.45. Allowing
for tips and gas, you can get by
for about $20.00. As a struggling
college student, you won't be able
to make a habit of it, but you
should do it at least once. It's
well worth it.
"Arsenic" will run for one more
week, and then "The Fantasticks"
will open November 20. There are
performances Wednesday through
Sunday. Call 4744181 well in ad-vance
for tickets.
sourgsky's "Hopak" and Gliere's
"Russian Sailor's Dance." The nov-elty
number, "Pachinko," will take
the listener to Japan. "Pachinko"
is the name of a pinball game cur-rently
popular there.
After a worldwide, trip, the last
stop will be the United States with
music from Mancini followed by
selections from the Broadway mu-sical
hit "I Do, I Do."
Ticket prices for the concert
are $1.00 for adults and 50c for
students. Refreshments during in-termission
will be provided by the
sponsors of the concert, the Bethel
Auxiliary, for a small fee.
never just noise, and it never
drowns out the words. They were
improvising much of the time; they
were always together.
The Doors as just three instru-mentalists
would be fabulous, but
they wouldn't have packed out the
Auditorium. They're a four ring
circus, and the main attraction is
Jim Morrison, singer and song
writer. He is sensual, and he is
(though the word has gotten old
through overuse) satanic. He walks
on the wild side, and during his
concerts he manages to bring his
listeners with him. He is a mys-tery.
He was vulgar Sunday night (he
prefers the word primitive), and
it would be easy to dismiss him as
"just an animal," but that doesn't
work. There is a tremendous pow-er
in the Door's songs that an ani-mal
could transmit to an audience,
but it's not a power that an ani-mal
could have put there.
Compare his crudeness of Sunday
night with this portion of an es-say
he wrote for "Eye" magazine:
"Ask anyone what sense he would
preserve above all others. Most
would say sight, forfeiting a mil-lion
eyes in the body for two in
the skull. Blind, we could live and
possibly discover wisdom. Without
Jones schedules
senior recital
Sharon Jones, music education
major, will present her senior re-cital
Saturday, November 16, in the
Seminary Hall Chapel. Her major
emphases are cello and voice.
She will be accompanied by Kar-in
Wickman and Linda Dow. John
Hopkins will play several selec-tions
on the clarinet.
Selections from Miss Jones' pro-gram
include Bach and Saint-Saens
for cello and Schutz, Bach, and
Wolf for voice. The program will
begin at 8 p.m.
Fish show review
The North Star Aquarists have
set up their initial show at Har
Mar and it is a whopper. The Har
Mar Exotic Fish Show began Mon-day,
Nov. 11, and will run 'til 6
p.m., Saturday night, Nov. 16.
For those unfamiliar with fish
and who have stereotyped ideas of
Perch and Pike, the exhibition
promises to be the most fascina-ting
and interesting display that
you could wish for.
The North Star Aquarists are
only six months old and have a
limited membership of hardwork-ing
hobbyists. They have set up
a display of many categories with
ribbons and trophies going to most
touch, we would turn into hunks
of woods."
Morrison comes off as a contra-diction.
The contradiction can best
be explained by a statement he
once made:
"I think the highest and the low-est
points are the important ones;
all the points in between are, well,
in between. I want freedom to try
everything—I guess I want to ex-perience
everything at least once."
He hit both extremes Sunday
night. The low you'll have to get
from a good friend who saw the
concert. At the other end was
"When the Music's Over," a beau-tiful
piece of theater that took the
Doors and their audience on a fif-teen-
minute high.
Friday, November 15, 1968
by Wally Borner
of the entrants. The show was
opened to anyone with fish and al-most
every imaginable kind is rep-resented.
The Betta class is one of the
most interesting. These colorful
fish would tear each other apart
but can live peaceably with other
fish. Each bowl has one Betta and
pieces of paper are between so that
they can't even see each other.
A Catfish may be common to
most, but the show exhibits an
albino catfish. A couple back-strokes
away is an electric Cat-fish.
One of the classes in competi-tion
is the novelty class where
anything goes. The exhibitor se-lects
a theme and his fish repre-
Following the first issuance of
1968-69 Coeval magazine this past
weekend, editorial staff members
are planning for the next issue,
which will be released before
Christmas break.
Contributors are urged, by the
deadline date of November 25, to
contact in person or via their box
numbers the Coeval staff members:
editor Esther Pearson (Box 148),
Bruce Lawson (Box 449), Bette
Dumse (Box 166), and Jeff Loom-is
(Box 553).
To encourage renewed activity
among contributors in the areas of
the CLARION Page 7
sent that theme. There is a west-ern
town set up with Red-eyed
Tetras in the saloon and Silver
Dollars in the gambling hall. An-gels
among the Clouds have a set
up of angel figurines among clouds
with Angel fish and White Cloud
fish swimming among them.
In some classes, fish are judged
alone, and in others, the back-ground,
plants, rocks, and fish are
combined to determine the ribbon
placings.
This may be the last fish show
in the area until at least Febru-ary,
and no matter what you think
of fish now, you will be ready to
buy guppies after viewing these
most exotic fish.
visual arts and music, a $20 prize
will be offered for the best work
submitted in these areas. The work
should be photographed and in-clude
an identifying sheet contain-ing
name of contributor and title.
All work for subsequent issues
must be that of students presently
enrolled at Bethel College.
Anyone who did not receive a
Coeval in his post office box may
find them available on the Clarion
distribution table in the Student
Center. Those who do not wish
to keep theirs are urged to place
them on the same table.
Doors concert Review
Morrison, powerful sound impress audience
Reviewer raves on rippling beauties
COEVAL prepares new edition;
rewards visual arts, music work
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by Parad I. Selost
I remember the day Bethel raised the cost of
washing clothes from ten cents to a quarter. Af-ter
all, it was only last summer. And if you think
you've got problems now with another Minnesota
winter at the door, and you stuck with a Califor-nia
wardrobe or a weak car battery, let me tell
you about my clothes washing problem.
In case you're confused as to why I'm wash-ing
clothes in Como Lake and dreading the corn-ing
freeze, let me explain, and the best way to
explain is to start from the beginning, in Falcon
Manor during early July.
It was one of those insipid Saturday mornings
that sort of unobtrusively seeps into your bedroom
after a long Friday night. I hesitantly awoke, feel-ing
like I should have been up three hours ago but
had somehow decided to sleep all day.
After several futile attempts of trying to be
absorbed by my mattress, I managed to get up,
remembering that I'd better wash clothes. Shoul-dering
my laundry bag, I drowsily stumbled into
the laundry room, digging a dime out of the deep
recesses of my right front pocket. I dumped my
clothes into the old, battered washing machine and,
fumbling with my dime, awkwardly slipped it
into the machine's quarter slot . . . QUARTER
SLOT ! Panic gripped my heart as the dime tum-bled
through the gaping hole, tinkling melodiously
as it fell on the floor and rolled under the washing
machine.
What will they think of next ? Visions of pay
toilets in the college building and dormitories
raced wildly through my mind as I vainly attempt-ed
to retrieve my dime out of the accumulated
filth under the machine. Realizing, however, that
the financial aid implications of pay toilets would
make such a move unfeasible, I quickly ban-ished
those thoughts, morbidly dwelling on more
likely possibilities like parking meters or water
vending machines.
Giving up my valiant efforts to retrieve my
dime, I got up off the floor, ramming my head
into the protruding coin apparatus of the washer.
Rubbing the back of my head, I wondered what
the psychological implications of losing 25c a crack
in Bethel's occasionally malfunctioning machines
would be.
I had always good naturedly considered a lost
dime as an "over and above" contribution to a
worthwhile cause — a small struggling Christian
college in need of support; however, no one likes
to see their generosity used to unfair advantage,
and I wasn't too keen on being milked for two-bits
per malfunction myself.
Well, the school must remain financially sol-vent,
I conceded as I repacked my laundry bag
and headed for King Koin where you get twenty-five
cents of washing for a quarter.
Now I want to make it clear that I have no
animosity towards the fine people upstairs that
make decisions on such things as the cost of
washing clothes. They have to cope with such
things as inflation, and they have pointed out to
me that it costs a quarter everywhere else to
wash clothes, that such a change here was pain-ful
because it was long overdue, and that the
quarter charge was necessary if Bethel were to
continue to provide top quality laundry facilities
and services.
Of course, there is no question that Bethel does
not have two bit machines. Obviously, they are
not that good. If you can wash clothes at a
laundromat for a quarter, you ought to be able
to use Bethel machines for ten or fifteen cents.
Well, I have digressed, so back to the story.
Having already financed three years of Bethel,
some of my senior friends and myself just couldn't
afford to wash clothes at twenty-five cents a load.
So we bought a big box of Cold Power, economy
size, and headed for Como Lake.
Things have worked out fairly well since then,
until now, when cold weather finally threatens
to freeze us out. The wash hasn't been as white
or bright as mother's, and it smells a little, but
it's better than paying a quarter for Bethel ma-chines.
Our only real problems struck us when
we attempted to use Valentine Lake on the new
campus.
My good friend Jim got three bloodsuckers and
I ruined my Sunday white shirt with algae stains.
In addition, we had to air our clothes out for
three days to get rid of the stench.
Oh well, pollution is becoming somewhat of a
status symbol these days anyway, and if Bethel
is going to keep up with the Joneses, it might
as well have pollution as well as twenty-five cent
washing machines.
Although the next few months look bleak to
those of us who have been washing clothes in
Como Lake, let me tell you that all of us are
facing the future with a firm jaw and unshakeable
determination to make the best of the situation
in spite of seemingly insurmountable odds. We
will all struggle on to the bitter end as long as
we can break the ice and replenish our supply of
Cold Power.
by Dan Johnson
For those unsuccessful pheasant hunters this fall there still is
a splendid opportunity where you are assured of a full limit of game.
Depending upon your finances and leave of absence from school you
can hunt anytime from October through January with favorable weather
conditions.
The sport involves the hunter, two shotguns, and one assistant who
reloads as fast as the hunter can shoot. The challenge is the famed
Red Legged Spanish partridge which is typically found in the higher,
rugged plateau area surrounding Madrid, Spain.
The Red Leg possesses outstanding virtues as a game bird because
it adapts itself to the wind conditions and terrain. Whereas the hunter
must drive forward over the ground searching, the Red Leg can easily
hide or sweep low over the ridges and gulleys. The wind easily carries
the Red Leg above and beyond the range of the hunter.
But the Red Leg is numerous and the hunters are spread out
evenly so the hunt is successful but only after a fair challenge. An
average hunter would get one bird to five shells. With experience and
quick shooting the expert will claim one bird to two shells.
This is most difficult when the Red Leg approaches in small conveys.
It is a matter of reflex action for both the hunter and the reloader.
This is why the Spanish Red Leg has become popular with its variety
of challenges that it offers for the hunter.
From the Madrid airport department every Friday during the sea-son
is a complete package tour and hunting arrangements for a nine
day shoot. They have provided everything possible to insure a good
hunt if you just provide the correct number of pestas.
Depending upon your accommodations and number in the group the
price varies from $875 to $1,552 plus air fare to and from Madrid. See
your campus travel agent for details.
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Friday, November 15, 1968 the CLARION Page 9
Coach Shields reviews past season, Full slate of activity spotlights
looks optimistically towards future opening of intramural volleyball
by Jim Youngquist
The Bethel Royals completed the
1968 football season with a 0-8-1
record. To those who worked hard
during the season it had to be a
disappointing season.
When asked the reason for the
winless season, Coach Shields gave
six main reasons. First, the Royals
were physically smaller than all
their opponents. Numerous injur-ies
were a second factor. Key men
were lost during the season includ-ing
Tom Moline in the very first
game and later Jack Campbell.
Coach Shields cited the "thin
quality" at certain positions as a
third factor. A fourth reason was
the lack of effort on the part of a
few players. A fifth and probably
most important was the schedule.
It was by far the toughest schedule
for any Bethel team thus far.
Commenting on this Shields said,
"We feel we will never improve
the football program by playing
poor teams. The only way is to
hang tough with the good teams."
A sixth cause and one that a ma-jority
of students are responsible
for is a general lack of enthusiasm.
Looking at the final statistics for
the year, the weakest point was
obviously the defensive line. Op-ponents
totaled 2,318 yards rushing
on the year while Bethel managed
a mere 538. Bethel led slightly
in total passing yardage with 930
The long elusive 600 series fin-ally
was attained during the even-ing
of Nov. 12 as two bowlers
knocked down enough pins to qual-ify
themselves for the "600" club.
Duane Peterson of Falcon show-ed
consistency with a 203,203, and
201 for a total of 607 pins.
Jerry Loomis started the night
less spectacularly as he rolled a
169 and 177 but then came back
with a season high of 256 for the
final game to push him up to a
602.
New Dorm beat Falcon in the
process 4-0. Off Campus also took
four from Third New.
(The standings below are as of
Nov. 5. The order is correct though
the team points have changed.)
The bowling standings up to the
week of Nov. 5 were extremely
complicated when Second Old and
Third New rolled a tie, 654 pins
apiece. Points are scored by games
won and total pins for the three
games, thus giving a possible four
points per game.
to the opponents' 901 yards. In
total offense, the opponents with
3,219 yards more than doubled
the Royals total of 1,468 yards.
Individual totals showed Al Se-lander
and Murray Sitte combin-ing
for 99 completions in 276 pass
attempts. Selander completed 79
of 219 for 708 yards and 2 touch-downs.
Sitte hit on 20 of 57 for
222 yards and a single TD.
Rushing, Barry Anderson led
with 132 yards in 75 carries. Don
Swanson with 115 yards and Pete
Roemer with 104 yards were the
only others to hit the 100 yard
mark.
Dave Pound led all pass receiv-ers
with 29 interceptions for 359
yards. Jim Wessman followed with
24 receptions and 240 yards. Mur-ray
Sitte netted 135 yards.
Punting chores were handled by
Fred Swedberg throughout the
season. Averaging over 40 yards for
the first few games, Swedberg
tailed off slightly in the rain
soaked games but still managed
a 35.8 yard average. He totaled 59
punts with a long of 56 yards.
Fred also kicked the one and only
field goal of the sesason.
Bethel totaled 76 points, averag-ing
8.4 points per game. Individual
scoring was led by Murray Sitte
with 18 points. Barry Anderson and
Al Selander each had 12 points.
Cal Harfst, who succeeded on 7 of
However, Third New also had a
member of Second New on their
team and thus points would be div-ided
up equally. One fourth point
would be given to each player per
game won.
The tie broke down the point
system into eighths. Technically,
Third New beat Second Old 3 1/2- 1/2.
Ron Skon and the boys, (three
non-Bethel students, but related to
the school in some way, shape or
form), won their first match of the
season as their handicap defeated
Off Campus 3-1.
New Dorm had a very off night,
but still squeaked by 4-0, the first
game by seven pins, as they defeat-ed
Off Campus Number 2.
Standings
New Dorm 1534
Off Campus 83/4
Third New 5 3/8
Second Old 41/2
New Dorm Number 2 2
Falcon 13/4
Second New 1 5/8
11 extra point kicks, had 7 points
to his credit. Scoring one touch-down
each were Dave Pound, Don
Swanson, Robb Watlov, and Jim
Wessman. Fred Swedberg account-ed
for the final 3 points with his
field goal.
Defensively, Bill Englund led
all tacklers with 59 tackles and 37
assists. Others with over 20 tackles
were Tom Swanson 51, Larry Van
Epps 50, Murray Sitte, 47, Barry
Anderson 47, Steve Bloom, 45, Bob
Olsen 32, Tim Weko 31, Greg Ek-bom
29, and Pete Roemer with 22.
Absent from the team next year
will be eight seniors. The greatest
loss will be the departure of Al
Selander who has led the Royals
at quarterback. Others leaving will
be Vaughn Ekbom, Bill Englund,
Jim Lindberg, Bill Malyon, Dave
Pearson, Ed Stone, and Don Swan-son.
As for next year, 31 squad men
will be returning, among them 20
lettermen. Coach Shields singled
out three freshmen, Robb Watlov,
Steve Bloom, and Keith Jung as
being good prospects for next
year's team.
Looking to next year Coach
Shields was very optimistic. On
the subject of recruiting, Shields
said, "For the first time we are
contacting all the high schools in
the state." On progress thus far
he commented, "We have met
with two groups of high school
coaches and thus far the response
has been good."
Wrapping up the season, Shields
summarized it in four words: "Dis-appointed
but not discouraged!"
Between intramural football and
studying mixed with countless
other activities,\ it hardly seemed
possible that I-M volleyball had
crept up upon us. It also hardly
seemed possible that the first night
brought forth a good turnout. A
psyched up team from Second Old
was the only one frustrated as the
New Dorm team, as could have
been expected, failed to show.
First Floor, the defending cham-pions,
showed up in full strength,
having enough men for two teams.
Third Old, fired up under the lead-ership
of Lou Duhon and Warren
Withrow, had the mob out in hopes
of an upset. They didn't quite
make it, however, as First Floor
took the match two games to one.
Off Campus, the leader in I-M
football, was almost knocked out
from
between the Assamese and the Ethi-opians.
As far as reception to Christian-ity
and the Word of God, Rev. John-son
said the two cultures were also
similar. Members of the establish-ed
religions, such as Hindu in As-sam
and Orthodox in Ethiopia,
were slow to respond. The primi-of
volleyball contention from the
beginning as they dropped the
first game to the Pit. However,
they staged a comeback and won
2-1.
Second New handily won over
Falcon 2-0. Apparently, the Falcon
boys were short of manpower be-cause
of a conflicting swimming
class and despite the aid of house
parent Wayne Erickson they could
not generate a win.
The Faculty contined its winning
ways as they dumped Third New
2-0. The Faculty has been loaded
with young blood this year in the
persons of Paul Andrusko and Dick
Steinhouse in particular and has
been effectively organized with a
winning attitude under the new Al
Glenn.
Two keglers boast 600 series
Uprooted missionary compares
Assamese, Ethiopian cultures
page 5
tive peoples generally seemed to
respond more readily.
The greatest adjustment to Rev.
Johnson came in the form of cli-mate.
The Ethiopian climate was
easier because of the 7,000-8,000
feet above sea level altitude, as
compared to the semi-tropical cli-mate
of India.
also ran 55 yards for a TD and
tossed touchdowns of 5 and 10
yards to Nordmark and Berggren
respectively.
STANDINGS
Off Campus 6-1
Second New 5-2
Faculty 5-2
Falcon 5-2
Third Old 4-3
Pit .4-3
Third New 3-5
First Floor 2-5
Second Old 2-6
New Dorm 0-8
Biorklund fills
coaching post
Jon Bjorklund, a senior from
Henning, Minnesota, is the new
Junior Varsity basketball coach.
A basketball letterman, Jon has
been plagued with bad legs dur-ing
his college basketball years,
and it was doubtful that he could
have played throughout this sea-son
without reinjury.
Head basketball coach Jack Tra-ger,
talked to Jon about the job
earlier this fall. While it isn't a
unique situation, this is the first
time that Bethel has had a stu-dent
filling a basketball coaching
role.
Jon plans on going into the coach-ing
profession which will make
this a very valuable experience
for him. According to coach Tra-ger,
Jon has a very good basket-ball
mind. Besides these personal
qualifications, one of the ideas be-hind
his selection is the possibility
of keeping him for more than one
year.
Trager thinks that Jon will do
a fine job, and he already has
done commendably for the first
two weeks of practice.
Page 10
the CLARION Friday, November 15, 1968
Off Campus squeaks past Falcon 1-0
victory shatters first place deadlock
In the most important game of 7-6 game. Their victims this time
the intramural season thus far were Second Old. Ron Carlson
Off Campus beat Falcon 1 to 0 in passed for 25 yards to Len Carlson
overtime. Off Campus scored the for the touchdown and then ran
point by gaining 60 yards on a for the extra point. Second Old
pass to Larry Johnson while Fal- came back on a pass to Wilzewske
con could only come up with 40 from Duddleston. They couldn't
yards on a pass interception by make the conversion, however, and
Arnie Bergstrom. lost their sixth game of the sea-
The game began with Falcon son.
moving the ball 30 yards in two New Dorm dominated their game
plays. It soon became the usual with Third New but, plagued by
defensive battle, however. During interceptions, couldn't cross the
regulation play Falcon had two goal line and lost 6-0. John Co-good
chances to score. Both times wan scored on a 55-yard pass from
they had a first and goal situation Kingsley for the game's only score.
and were stopped, once on downs That was the extent of Third
and the other time on an intercep- New's offense as New Dorm's
tion by Doug Carlson. three man rush of Randy Inouye,
Faculty edged Third Old 2-0 as Rod Larson, and Lynn Bergfalk
Gene Peterson caught the quarter- nailed the opposing quarterback
back in the end zone for a safety. time and again, with Bergfalk get-
The safety came early in the first ting to him seven times by the
half. Third Old theatened in the game's end.
second half as they had a first Second New spanked First Floor
and goal but fumbles and penalties 33-0 to hold on to a share of
saved the game for the offensively second place. John Olander and
lacking Faculty. Gary Hasselblad each scored on
The Pit won their second straight 20-yard interceptions. Hasselblad
Soccer club finishes
season with 8-2 win
The Bethel Soccer Club took the
field at Luther Seminary last Sat-urday
not knowing just what to
expect. They were to play Minne-apolis
School of Art, which would
be that school's first game.
But on the other hand, Bethel
had to play without Jon Nord-strom,
the goaltender and with-out
the ball control wizardry of
Dave Schmidt. Jon was sick and
Dave injured his knee in that
morning's I-M football action.
But Bethel handily defeated the
Art School by a score of 8-2. With-in
the first minute, Bethel moved
down the field and Lee Granlund
kicked the ball through the goal
for a quick lead. Two minutes la-ter,
Dale Lindwall scored to make
it look like a romp.
The first half was all Bethel. On
a few occasions, the scrappy oppon-ents
brought the ball down and a
Royal goalkeeper had to make a
save.
Bethel did lots of shifting. Af-ter
Pete Wicklund and Dale Lind-wall
scored goals three and four,
Tim Larson came up to score. The
scoring in the first half ended with
a hard shot off the foot of fullback
Jim Bussiere.
Bethel used about five different
players for goalie, but in the sec-
Action was fast and furious last Saturday morning
as intramural football competition swung into the home-stretch.
If Off Campus loses tomorrow, the season could
end in a four way tie for first.
Sidefiete
Symposium
by Wally Borner
Saturday night, at 7 p.m. in the Bethel gym, the Bethel
wrestling team will tangle with Macalester College. Doug King
will be coaching the Royals for his second season as he molds
what will be the best wrestling team Bethel has ever had.
Last year, King directed the team to an 8-10 record. Where-as
the team was weak in the lighter weights, this year the light
weights should prove to give a strong start to the Bethel match-es.
Doug Warring, a letterman from last year, will be joined
by freshmen Jeff Mourning and Lee Granlund.
Bob Olsen, Bethel's biggest winner in the last two years
will be joined by his brother Jim for the ensuing campaign.
Randy Inouye should add strength to the heavyweight class.
Besides Bob and Doug, returning lettermen Barry Ander-son
and Greg Ekbom will also be back.
Coach King mentioned that the squad was suffering from
a few football injuries which might hurt for awhile, however,
this year's team has the all around depth in each weight
class that it has lacked in the past.
Last year, wrestling became quite a spectator sport as a
crowd of over 300 showed up for the season's first match.
This year, with a vastly improved team, fan support should also
be better.
The Macalester coach states that they have one of their
better teams in the last few years. Just what that means, we
won't know until Saturday night when the Bethel grapplers
will be out to win their first meet of the season.
SPORTS CALENDAR
Friday, Nov. 15 - Thursday, Nov. 21
Nov. 15 Basketball, Pipers vs. Indiana-8:05 Home
Nov. 16 Bethel I-M Football-9:30 A.M.
Nov. 16 Wrestling, Bethel vs. Macalester-7:00 Home
Nov. 16 Hockey, North Stars vs. Los Angeles-8:05 Home
Nov. 16 Basketball, Pipers vs. Kentucky—Away
Nov. 17 Football, Vikings vs. Detroit-3:00 Home
Nov. 17 Hockey, North Stars vs. St. Louis-7:00 Away TV
NNoovv.. 1188 Women's Volleyball, Bethel vs. Concordia-7:00 Away
Bethel I-M Volleyball-7:45
Nov. 19 Basketball, Piuers vs. Denver—At Duluth
Nov. 20 Bethel I-M Volleyball-7:45
Nov. 20 Hockey, North Stars vs. Philadelphia-8:05 Home
and half, they settled down with
Tim Larson and Wally Borner
guarding the goal. Minneapolis
School of Art also managed to find
an adequate goaltender.
And with the addition of Tom
Page, the organizer of the Art
School's team, Bethel had a rough-er
second half. Tom broke the ice
and ruined Bethel's shutout as he
broke in and scored about ten min-utes
into the half.
Lee Graunlund scored his sec-ond
goal of the day when he put
a penalty shot into the right hand
corner of the goal.
Minneapolis School of Art came
out with a good exhibition of pass-ing
in the second half, which kept
Bethel from doing as much scor-ing
as in the first half. As with
their first goal, they scored later
in the game on a breakaway play
as they outran the Bethel defense
that had pulled up to mid-field.
Abe, a foreign student, who, along
with Tom, held the team together,
scored by sailing the ball into his
left hand corner.
Dale Lindwall scored the hat
trick with his third goal of the
game to end Bethel's scoring. The
8-2 win gave the Club a 2-4-1 rec-ord.
Jon Nordstrom makes an-other
save for the Royals.
Nordstrom lifts soccer fortunes
The soccer team ended their season last Saturday
with a 8-2 win over Minnneapolis School of Art.
The fortunes of Bethel's soccer
club during the past season have,
in many ways, rested upon goal-keeper
Jon Nordstrom. Though
Bethel's opponents have averaged
3.3 points a game to Bethel's 1,
Nordstrom has taken more punish-ment
and been called on to make
more saves than any opposing
goalie.
Jon's quick hands and diving
grabs have saved many goals from
being scored and his booming kicks
have been able to set up the ball
for the offense or at least keep it
away from him for a while longer.
He graduated from Minnehaha
Academy in 1967 and attended Cal-ifornia
Lutheran Bible School that
fall. Out west, Nordstrom didn't
have a school team to play on, but
played on a park board league.
Jon has been a resident of north
Minneapolis all his life and his soc-cer
career has kept him as a per-manent
goalkeeper. He is normally
(and naturally) scared when the
opposing team comes dribbling
toward him, but is "sold" on the
game.
As of yet, Jon is not sure of his
major, but is planning on going
into Seminary. Currently he is in-volved
in a folk-group on campus
and also has one of the leads in
the opera which will be performed
during the Festival of Christmas.
Jon feels that the future of soc-cer
at Bethel is really bright. This
year has helped and since beating
Augsburg, the outlook can only im-prove.
He thinks that it would be
even better if the team had the
support of the administration and
thus regular varsity status. "We
could have one of the better teams
in Minnesota," he commented.

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Volume XLIII—No. 10
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, November 15, 1968
Senate seeks financial autonomy
SPIRE editor Gayle McCandless works with two of her
proteges in the SPIRE'S basement office.
Missions focus features
special chapel speakers,
small group discussions
by Steve Marquardt
The Student Senate has passed
a memorandum from Greg Taylor,
Student Association President, cal-ling
for a complete revamping of
the present financial ties with the
college administration. This mem-orandum
is a revision of an earlier
memorandum by Taylor which al-so
passed the senate.
Taylor's second memorandum re-quests
the following: "(1) A student
government fee be collected each
semester from full time students.
The $12.50 initial fee (per semes-ter)
would be established and set
by the Student Association (SA).
(2) Total responsibility for the
use and holding of this fund. (3)
The Business Office to offer coun-sel
regarding the management of
this fund."
Under the present constitution
the senate draws up a budget for
the following year and submits it
to the Business Office in the Col-lege
Building. Here, after passing
through various administrative tun-nels
in competition with ever y
other department's budget, it—
along with the others—emerges a
few thousand dollars lower than
the sum requested. From the col-lege's
general fund money is dis-tributed
throughout the year as
was decided by the administration's
balancing of the budgets.
The action stimulating Taylor's
first of two memorandums was the
withholding of funds designated
for Homecoming by the Business
Office until certain difficulties
were ironed out. Last year's sen-ate
proposed a budget of $29,000,
Students for Urban Involvement
(all) proposed an Urban Concern
Program to the Social Ministries
Committee of the Minnesota Bap-tist
Conference on November 5.
This proposal stimulated the for-mation
of a study committee which
is to define a student based ur-ban
action program January 7.
The study committee will be
composed of two faculty repre-sentatives,
four Bethel students,
and two members of the Social
Ministries Committee. This accom-plishment
was the immediate ob-including
$800 for Homecoming,
to the Business Office.
However, the weighing of the
Student Senate's proposed budget
against the other school depart-ments'
requests resulted in a sum
of $23,000 designated for the sen-ate.
The problem arose when the
Business Office still designated
$800 for Homecoming after de-creasing
the total funds available
to the senate by $600.
Taylor's initial memorandum fol-lowing
Homecoming called for a
two percent cut from the tuition
fee for an autonomous student
government. After the more in-fluential
administrators demon-strated
their noncompliance with
this request on the basis of its
impracticality and wording Taylor
revised the memorandum to accom-odate
a plan for establishing a
semester fee of $12.50 per student
for supporting an autonomous stu-dent
government.
Taylor feels the SA should not
have to compete within the restric-tions
of the general fund for fi-nances
like any department of the
school. He feels that since the SA
is directly a student organization,
the students should appropriate
their own funds as they think best,
and not have to do so with an or-ganization
that must justify its ex-penditures
to the administration.
In his words, "the Student Sen-ate
should justify its actions to
the student body, not the adminis-tration."
Another reason, Taylor feels,
was exemplified to a significant
extent by the action of the Busi-jective
of Students for Urban In-volvement.
SUI began as a response to the
closing of Bethel Center, the Min-nesota
Baptist Conference's only
urban program. The students who
formed SUI interpreted this as a
Conference retreat from an area
vital to American society. The stra-tegy
of SUI has been to develop a
feasible program for student based
based urban action that would at-tract
the support of the Minnesota
Baptist Conference and Bethel
College.
ness Office in freezing the funds
for Homecoming. "If someone
sometime decides we're too radical
they can freeze our budget," he
said. In this way he feels autonomy
will insure a future for student
direction of student affairs.
Other advantages he predicted
in this system involved this over-all
objective stated in his revised
memorandum: ". . . that the stu-dent
government (will be) directly
responsible to those it serves and
those who pay for its services."
Con't on page 3
by Dave Greener
"A yearbook is more than a pic-ture
book. It can be a vital com-munication."
These are some of the
ideas of yearbook editor Gayle Mc-
Candless. In her role as 1969 Spire
editor-in chief, she and her staff
are anticipating a new approach
to the publication of Bethel's an-nual.
The Spire, in Gayle's opinion, is
a communication not only to peo-ple
of the Baptist General Confer-ence
but is also an outreach to
people outside the Conference
without any connection with a
church.
This year the format of that
communication will change. As
Gayle says, "We want the book to
be the students. We want the book
to express what the students feel."
Gayle thus wants the Spire to
The plan SUI presented to the
Social Ministries Committee con-sists
of three phases. The initial
phase will be educational.
It will attempt to orient the in-volved
students to the dynamics
of urban life with emphasis on race
relations, poverty and other urban
problems. This intensive orienta-tion
will be acceptable for aca-demic
credit.
The second phase will involve
students working and living in ur-
Con't on page 5
The new face and issues of mis-sions
will take expression next
week as Bethel students query and
hear from about a dozen mission-aries
scheduled to participate in
the campus World Missions Week.
"A Man Afar Off," 1968 theme
for Le annual missions emphasis,
will be complemented in daily cha-pel
sessions, classroom sessions and
in informal small-group discussions
with the visiting missionaries.
Featured speaker for Tuesday
through Thursday, Nov. 19-21,
chapel services will be Rev. J. F.
Shepherd from Cranford, N. J., a
pastor, lecturer, missions educator
and promoter, and a former mis-sionary
to China and the Philippine
Islands.
Rev. Richard Varberg, a Baptist
General Conference missionary
who is on furlough after his sec-ond
term of service in the Phil-ippine
Islands, will be guest speak-er
at the chapel sessions Monday
and Friday, Nov. 18 and 22.
Several missionaries will be
speaking in class sessions during
the week, upon request of instruc-tors
who feel a missionary's ex-perience
and background would be
relevant to the class area of study.
Dr. Arthur Lewis is in charge of
arranging the classroom sessions.
Instead of the regularly sched-uled
evening sessions that have
been held in previous years, this
year's Mission Week Committee
decided to schedule only informal
dialogue and discussion sessions.
be a more effective mirror of Beth-el
students. She wants it to ac-knowledge
that there are students
on this campus whom Christianity
"turns off" as well as those "who
have had experiences with Christ."
She wants it to portray the Bethel
scene as it is—"the areas of unrest
as well as those of rest."
She also wants the Spire to raise
an attempt to answer certain fun-damental
questions such as: Why is
there a Bethel College? And why
should we be Christians today?
An effective communication, a
real communication — these are
goals for this year's Spire. Yet
there are problems to be surmount-ed
if these hopes are to be ful-filled.
One major difficulty, according
to Gayle, is the small size of this
A committee spokesman said
this method enables students to se-lect
areas that fit their particular
interests. Topics are decided by
the missionaries according to their
personal concerns and major inter-ests.
Students should watch the "Daily
Calendar" for announcements of
the time and location of various
informal missions sessions. Miss
Lillian Ryberg is in charge of co-ordinating
the non-classroom ses-sions.
"To Build A Church," a new
sound-color-motion f i 1 m about
Ethiopia, the conference's "focus
field" for 1968, will be shown
sometime during the week. The
film shows Ethiopia, old and new;
close-up of the Emperor; growing
process of church planting; and
a gripping contest between witch
doctor and hospital dresser.
Preceding the World Missions
Week will be a briefing session
for committee members, mission-aries
and student leaders at 6 p.m.
Saturday in the President's Dining
Room. Other students interested in
attending are to contact Dr. Donald
Larson or one of the other com-mittee
members, Valerie Peterson,
Janice Wyma, John Harms, Dr.
Clarence Bass, or Herman Tegen-feldt.
A feedback session will give an
opportunity for students to voice
their evaluations and comments
on World Missions Week. That
meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m.
on Friday, Nov. 22 in the Coffee
Shop area.
year's staff. While Gayle does not
question their ability—she in fact
praises their performance—she is
apprehensive of a lack of num-bers,
especially of involved assist-ants.
She is particularly apprehen-sive
of an acute lack of good wri-ters.
This year's Spire staff members
include section editors Dean Back-strom
(sports), Joyce Bristow (activ-ities),
Chris Pearson (organization),
Cindy Wells (faculty and staff),
business manager Bonnie Larson,
and photographers Warren Dis-brow
and Donovan Kramer.
Gayle wishes to make it known
that persons interested in assist-ing
with the Spire may contact her
by P.O. 632 or in the Spire office
(in the basement of the college
building).
Students discuss urban involement,
formulate plans for action program
SPIRE editor sees "communication"
as vital objective for 1968 yearbook
Bookstore price
I find it interesting that the New
Bible Commentary, which is ad-vertized
on the back of the New
Bible Dictionary as selling f o r
$8.95, sells in the Bethel Bookstore
for $9.95, with the publisher's price
cut off the jacket.
But I find it even more interest-ing
that I could buy the Commen-tary
at the Northwestern Bookstore
in Har Mar for the publisher's
price of $8.95. Isn't it strange that
a book store (which supposedly is
in it for the money can sell a book
cheaper than Bob Bergerud (who
supposedly is not)?
Chuck Myrbo. Junior
the CLARION
Published weekly' during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
college, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Lynn Bergfalk
Assistant Editor Maurice Zaffke
Layout Editor Sue Bonstrom
News Editor Margie Whaley
Entertainment Editor Chuck Myrbo
Sports Editor Wally Borner
Business Manager Bill Goodwin
Circulation Manager Pat Faxon
Proof Reader Karen Rodberg
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Missions Week aims at challenging
lethargic, inward-turned community
And he who does not take his
cross and follow me is not wor-thy
of me. He who finds his
life will lose it, and he who loses
his life for my sake will find it.
—Matt. 10:38, 39.
Page 2
the CLARION Friday, November 15, 1968
"The Student as Nigger 11
finds application where?
"Students are niggers," Gerald Farber says in his essay,
"The Student as Nigger." "When you get that straight, our
schools begin to make sense."
Now you might not think such a statement sounds nice,
you may not think it's proper, and you may even think that it
shouldn't be quoted in the CLARION. You may have even con-ditioned
yourself to dispose of such provocative (and inflama-tory,
absurd, radical, communist-inspired, or improper) state-ments
with an absolute minimum of provocation. The question
of "student as nigger" simply may not be an issue for you
because you'd rather not rock the boat with any kind of dis-turbing
questions.
But some people have attempted, with a minimum of side-stepping,
to face the specific question of whether or not Bethel
students "are niggers." We would answer affirmatively.
Now we're not talking about inequality, like a thirty per-cent
bookstore discount for faculty, or somewhat preferential
treatment by the Food Service for faculty/administration func-tions.
That may be part of it, but it is only a minor part.
We're not even talking about a lack of student participa-tion
in college decision making processes or antagonistic feel-ings
between different groups on campus. Campus interaction
generally takes place in a cordial manner, and students are
being accorded increasing responsibility through student-faculty
committees and other institutional channels.
Rather we are talking about the kind of thing where, in
some places and at some times, a black man has stepped off
the sidewalk to let a white man pass. And we are concerned
with the attitudes of the man who stepped aside and with the
attitudes of the man who expected the other to step aside.
When we speak of the "student as nigger," these are the
things we're talking about because the same attitudes are evi-denced
at Bethel, albeit in subtle and unconscious ways. But
their invisibility scarcely detracts from their effect; they exist
even though we may be unaware of them.
For too many of the more elevated members of the Bethel
community, students are still "boys and girls" who just aren't
on the same plane. The rule of thumb is to talk and work with
students in a paternalistic and condescending way. Treat a stu-dent
as a man only when it's no longer possible to treat him as
a schoolboy. •
Maybe there is some mysterious change in body chemistry
that strikes a schoolboy when he gets his degree, and he walks
off the platform and out into the world a man. Or maybe there
is something threatening (security-wise) in treating a student
as a man or woman, or at least as an equal.
The "good student" is the Uncle Tom who may stand for
nothing but the status quo and a mythical image. Such a stance
allows him to stand self-righteously with the "establishment"
and condemn the student whose Christian conscience has led
him to grapple with difficult social and moral issues. There are
(continued on page 5)
To the Editor:
We'd hate to accuse the Clarion
of being original, and your article
concerning the Straw Vote (Nov. 8)
proved that we don't have to. Your
article seems to us to be a simple
reversal of the attitudes that we
presented in our report.
It appears to be a short, but
necessarily a concise, effort to sum
up our endeavors as a "gallant"
waste of time. But we imagine
that even this attitude falls under
the rather nebulous heading of
"constructive criticism."
It would seem reasonable that
the readers of the Clarion could
ask for facts, of one form or an-other,
to substantiate its allega-tion
that: (1) "It seems apparent
. . . that this poll was not even
a cross-section of Bethel political
opinion." (2) "A boycott of Humph-rey
voters added to the insignifi-cance
of the poll, although the ef-fect
of this influence is incalcula-ble."
Are these observations un-founded
speculation or are they
based on fact?
We, in our report, were the first
to point out that this was by no
means an accurate cross-section of
any group—the Nation, Minnesota,
or any other group other than
Bethel. Bethel is to us a unique
case.
But your observations that the
little to pay each week for the rest of your life.
(The layman is essentially rear-guard in the task
force prepared for the Christian penetration of
society. )
How will it be proclaimed ? Through gospel
bombs, blimps and broadcasts, and any other im-personal,
institutionalized, indirect media which
our technologized society may develop.
( Even the computer helps us now to measure
the "spiritual effectiveness" of our missionary en-deavor.)
Personal, direct and face-to-face con-frontation
with the Christian message seems to
be on the way out.
We have not yet learned to be a redeeming
community in the world. Our proclamation is pat
answers — "laws" — and the proclaimers are de-nounced
as hyprocrites who are themselves in
bondage to the establishment, unable to find free-dom
and fulfillment in Christ, the Redeemer.
Our sharing is mostly in the collection plate,
not over coffee, or in the dorm, or in the forum.
Our service is mostly spectatorship or per
trumpet trios, chalk talks, ventriloquized
Bible stories, not in community concern.
What is the answer ? Can anything be done?
World Missions Week is just one part of that
ongoing process in which these questions are ex-amined.
"The man afar off" comes a bit closer, where
we can see and understand his need. The mission-ary,
another "man afar off," also moves a bit
nearer, and we gain a new appreciation for what
he is trying to do with his life. And perhaps there
is even a sense in which Christ Himself is "a
man afar off," and we want Him to come much
closer, to become much more prominent in our
decision-making.
To this end the World Missions Committee
plans and prays, hoping that each member of the
Bethel community will gain some new insights,
ask some new questions, see some new alterna-tives,
and make some new decisions.
Two directions .. .
"There was a time when the servant of Christ walked in
the pagan world in weakness, subject to masters whom the
servant could not control. He lived in a culture and an environ-ment
where Christian discipleship was a radical and unwel-come
novelty.
"Christians were considered strange and dangerous people
who were disloyal to the notions about life that everyone else
accepted. Unique and glaring differences were seen in their
willingness to be servants of God for the sake of the world, and
servants of the world for Christ's sake. It was risky, and a bit
exciting to be a servant in those days.
"There also have been times when the servant of Christ
walked in a world conditioned to Christian ways of thinking.
He walked in strength. He controlled the situation. He could
decide when he would serve and for how long, on what condi-tions
he would serve, the kind of service he would render, and
the terms for continuing service.
"He could gather behind walls of his own buildings to plan
strategy. Then he could come out into the world when he was
ready and carry out a program or project. He could see if it
was well received, and if it was not, he could retire to his strong
position to plan things more carefully. . ." (Portraits of A
Servant - John Schultz).
World Missions Week: which alternative are you going to
offer us?
attendance
To the Editor:
In last week's Clarion there ap-peared
a letter questioning the
openmindedness of the Bethel fac-ulty
in not attending the John
Ylvisaker concert. I tend to dis-agree
that many students watched
the doors for faculty members.
Furthermore I wonder how many
students were actually disappoint-ed
over the few number of facul-ty
present. Why should Bethel fac-ulty
be judged by their lack of at-tendance
at a Senior Class spon-sored
concert of a varied nature.
I also think that the "higher
echelons" realize fully the 20th
century means of expression. The
recent New Folk chapel hour illus-trates
this point.
We all are entitled to our own
means of expression but let's not
be taking one particular event and
work up steam for criticism against
the school administration and fac-ulty
in general.
D. W. Johnson
Senior
pretations of the vote totals and
their significance; this is gener-ally
accepted as the privilege of
the opinion writer.
BETHEL FORUM
Vote analysts blast CLARION Ylvisaker
Straw Vote "was not even a cross-section
of Bethel political opinion"
is beyond the legitimate bounds of
speculation. Facts, not speculations,
is what we as readers expect from
the Clarion.
The purpose of our report was
to provoke thought on the part of
the reader. If the Clarion's article
is the valid reader's response, then
we have failed—we would openly
admit this. But if the Clarion's
views its own Straw Vote as merely
"fun" and refuses to look beyond
the obvious to seek any under-standing,
then maybe it's the Clar-ion
who has failed.
Tom Ford, Freshman
Ralph C. Sheppard, Senior
Editor's note : The article in
question was not a news story,
as Mr. Ford and Mr. Sheppard
have apparently assumed, but
was an interpretive article put
on the editorial page, the normal
place for opinion or editorial
writing.
Ford, who heads the campus
YGOPers, and Sheppard both
helped tabulate and analyze re-sults.
The CLARION'S reporter
felt no obligation to religiously
adhere to the interpretations
made in their analysis, and con-sequently
made his own inter-by
Dr. Donald N. Larson
This campus is not quite ready to burst apart
at the seams. On occasion it rocks and rolls, but
hardly from the pressures and pulsations of Chris-tian
commitment and missionary zeal.
Christian missions are not dead here: they
just haven't come to life in very visible ways.
A lonely student can still wander about with
little sense that he belongs to a dynamic Christian
community. Only here and there is intimate shar-ing
of Christian experience apparent.
Only a handful take the risk of marching by
the prophet's drum. The dignity of man makes
a nice topic for a theme, but is hardly a reality.
Social concern and involvement are "in," but per-haps
motivated to a great degree by desire for
attention.
The gospel has not yet been translated into
community-wide action. Like talking-to-them-selves-
congregations all through the Bible belt, of
which Bethel is the buckle, as someone put it,
we are happy just to be a community basking in
the sunlight of our salvation and righteousness.
Christian content does not yet fill the forms
which current protest is taking. Contact with the
world that God loves is an option, hardly an
obligation.
Why is it this way? Whose fault is it ? No-body's,
or maybe everybody's: perhaps we are
just reaping what we have sown.
We have spread the notion far and wide that
evangelism is mainly a matter of proclamation,
and those whom I support can proclaim salvation
to those who have never heard—and whom I have
never met—through all sorts of impersonal me-dia.
Who will proclaim it? Clergymen and single
ladies, but not me : I'm not called.
Where will it be done? Across oceans and na-tional
boundaries, over there somewhere, but not
here : I'm not there.
What will be proclaimed? Salvation by and
by, with little more than a confession down, and
From her dormitory-window view of Bethel Campus,
Mari; Sorley puts the finishing touches to a pencil sketch
of the Japanese coastline as seen from her window in
her homeland.
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She walked into Bodien with a
suitcase early one morning. There
wasn't any hot water in Hagstrom
and she wanted to take a shower.
Maybe it was unusually unique, but
something in her intent seemed
real.
Adopted by the Sorley family
missionaries in Wakayama, Gobo,
Japan, Marji has experienced a
duo-ethnic background. The child
of a Japanese mother and an Amer-ican
father, Marji was accepted in-to
an American missionary fam-ily
and was educated both in Jap-anese
and boarding schools.
Too young for boarding school
and a bit too "incorrigible" (as
she says) to be taught at home,
Marji attended the Japanese school
for her first four years. When she
was ten years old, the Sorleys
came to America on furlough,
much to Marji's disadvantage. Not
having been exposed to intensive
English, she found it hard to ac-cept
school in the United States.
Upon returning to Japan Marji
entered boarding school and even-tually
attended the Japanese Chris-tian
Academy for missionaries'
Friday, November 15, 1968
high schoolers. While there she
learned much that wasn't included
in her studies. Christian pitfalls
such as hypocrisy and false uni-formity
were evidenced.
Knowing Japanese ethnic values
and facing American idealism with-in
Christian understanding has
presented problems for Marji. She
has acquired Japanese behavior
from her early schooling. Rather
willing to lie about her true feel-ings
than to offend someone, she
finds it difficult to accept the
American outspokeness.
The Japanese will criticize their
possessions only to seem humble,
while the Americans praise their
property to seem grateful. This
has been a factor for Marji to cope
with, having a partial concept of
the two ways of life.
Marji has discovered that the
Americans have presented them-selves
as having the "right way,"
and some of the missionaries have
extended this feeling. Japanese
college students are especially cri-tical
of the United States and
often consult the "foreigners" on
race issues and Viet Nam.
Japan is efficient regardless of
its size, and usually Americans are
considered intruders trying to
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bring things that are useless. What
then can American missionaries
give the Japanese?
In her present environment at
Bethel Marji still is the inquiring
and formative individual she has
been in Japan. From a long line
of family members who have at-tended
Bethel a tradition has been
established. Therefore Marji is
here with us. However, she feels
that it is right for her to be at
Bethel.
She appreciates the atmosphere
of an 'expected but not manda-tory"
chapel. Often in her approach
to a real relationship with Christ
Marji became disillusioned with
people who could discuss church
history and doctrine but never
their personal closeness to God.
She feels that a person who choos-es
to remain aloof from God will
have a better chance to realize his
need for personal contact with
Him.
Marji is an art major with a pur-pose.
She wants to feel what other
people do and to be able to relate
to them. Through art she aims to
acquire a sensitivity uncommon to
most people. Marji expresses her
goal as, "Discernment is a gift of
Career overseas the Holy Spirit, and I want it!"
Marji examines Bethel environment,
reflects on Japanese background
Lewis views missionary preparation God's
by M. Lachler Dr. Lewis, you received your M.O. Gordon Divinity School the most mission
This week's interview is with
Dr. Arthur Lewis, Associate Pro-fessor
of Old Testament at Beth-el,
who recently has served as a
missionary to Portugal.
Dr. Lewis, what was your "job"
on the mission field?
I responded in 1952 to a need
for Bible teachers in the Semina-rio
Teologico Baptista and joined
a small staff of two USA and three
Portuguese part-time profs. Be-sides
building the school, curricu-lum,
buildings, etc., we sponsored
Laymen's courses, evangelical pub-lications,
youth conferences, camp-ing
programs, church founding,
and evangelistic outreach.
In which ways were you pre-pared
for this varied program?
I found my evangelistic opportu-nities
backed up by many years
of preaching, starting back in High
School. College, Seminary and
graduate studies became useful for
the classroom needs of our Semi-nary.
War experiences were of im-portance
in witnessing and person-al
work. Strong home training in
the Word and worship gave me
confidence in the directing of my
own family and personal life.
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from Harvard and your Ph.D. from
Brandeis University. Are these real-ly
necessary on the foreign field?
The M.A. is considered the same
as a doctor's degree in most of
the Latin countries. It definitely
gives the worker an advantage in
dealing with university students
or in any kind of institutional work.
What college majors do you feel
would best equip a student con-sidering
a missionary career over-seas?
For Roman Catholic dominated
lands a degree in European History
is directly applicable to the mis-sionary's
task. English, speech, or
journalism apply to the constant
demands for publishing, writing,
and translating. All areas would
profit by the knowledge of anthro-pology.
Is Seminary training absolutely
necessary?
I consider my three years at
"Hundreds of U.S. Colleges and
universities will be participating in
a Fast For Freedom Thursday, No-vember
21. The annual event, which
is sponsored by the National Stu-dent
Association, involves students
voluntarily bypassing an evening
meal in order that the profits
might be given to minority group
projects throughout the United
States.
Bethel students are invited to
sign up for the Fast Monday and
Tuesday of next week, either in the
valuable of all graduate study. The
six or seven basic fields dealt with
in Seminary are all vital to the
balanced ministry of the church
leader. The missionary becomes an
administrator, research person, a
source of knowledge on Bible,
Church History, methodology, evan-gelism,
theology . . . you name
it!
Is it possible or feasible for a
college student to take part of his
college work in a foreign land —
sort of a trial run for Missions?
A tremendous idea, and I would
like to see more Bethel students
going out for part of their college
or graduate work.
Many foreign universities wel-come
USA students, give scholar-ships,
and some allow all the work
done in English, as in India, Leba-non,
etc. A view of the foreign sit-uation
often brings a real sense of
urgency to God's call.
cafeteria or at the ticket booth.
Those not on the meal plan are
invited to contribute. Possible al-ternatives
for a program on that
evening are under consideration.
Coordinators for the Fast, Ed
Soule and Dave Shupe, hope that
participation this year will far sur-pass
last year's. They mentioned
that the coincidence of the Fast
being during Mission Week should
provide both more incentive and
meaning for participation.
continued from page 1
Students a n d administrators
have raised important questions
concerning the memorandum. Pres-ident
Lundquist and Dean Olson
evaluated the issue optimistically
from their points of view, and
agreed that the present system is
open to review. Olson, along with
several students, questioned the
advantage given the students by
the proposed extra tax.
Olson said, "The administration
does not want to exercise patern-alism"
but that the present system
"can work if we all get together
and see how it does work." He re-commended
much discussion and
awareness on the part of the stu-dent
body, and possibly even an
open forum for clarification, de-fense
and testing of ideas.
by Jonathan P. Larson
The whole point is this, creation has fallen apart at the
seams; its fabric has been invaded by rot. If nature is a wonder
of delicate order, it is also convulsing in chaos. So nature and his-tory
are brothers. And if nature is askew, then history too is run
amuk. As for man, the spindle of history has flung each of us
away from the center. Babel has destined you and me to speak
our separate tongues, and none of us speaks the language of God.
Thomas Wolfe has said it for us all in his novel, Look Home-ward
Angel, "Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?"
W. B. Yeats has penned the lines in "The Second Coming," "Things
fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon
the world." In a recent rock hit, the Beatles chant together, "We
all live in a yellow submarine."
In face of the reeling obscurantism of the contemporary arts,
the obsessively subjective modern philosophies, and the surging
forces of anarchism we are left with but one conclusion about
ourselves, that we have lost our oneness. History, the story of man,
is not so much a symphony as it is a cacophony. So where is the
center of this mess ? Where is the sense of this maze?
There is a back door to Eden, you know. God is on a mission
in this world. And man is his agent. A new center has been estab-lished.
The Carpenter's purpose is to bring back into order the
whole universe; to eliminate the distance that separates us from
each other.
"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were afar off have been
brought near in the blood of Christ." Ephesians.
God's mission through man frees all nature from the bondage
of confusion. Nature is no longer the victim of history. And man
is no longer doomed to despoil himself and nature. God never
promised man a vista of all history; an understanding of all as-pects
of his program. To discuss missions as our program for our
world is extremely dangerous.
Who knows, God's mission in the world someday may call
on God's men to clean up our polluted waters. We know this though,
that God is pulling things together again, and he has begun with
men.
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finance minority group projects
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Friday, November 15, 1968
Rev. Richard Varberg and Rev. Marwin Lindstedt, conference missionaries to the Philippines,
scan several recent evangelical publications of their field. Rev. Varbergs holds a hymnal —the
first printed gospel volume in the Masbatian dialect.
Speaks in chapel
Varberg tells of work in Philippines
• ••
M issionary Sketches
Former China missionary
speaks in chapel service
Even though Rev. Richard Var-berg
had originally decided that
he would be a farmer when he
grew up, his ultimate missionary
commitment has been blessed as he
has attempted to "sow the Word of
God in the hearts of Filipinos."
Rev. Varberg will be one of the
featured chapel speakers during
Bethel's World Missions Week. He
will be sharing with Bethel stu-dents
some of the unusual accom-plishments
and experiences of mis-sions
in the Philippine Islands.
Rev. and Mrs. Varberg went to
the Philippines in 1958, and after
a period of study of the Cebuano
languarge were engaged in an ev-angelistic
ministry in Tuburan, Ce-bu,
the main island of the Philip-pines.
During their second term on the
field they have been working in
Masbate City, on the Island of
Masbate, where he served as pas-tor
of the local Baptist church un-til
a Filipino pastor was called.
Masbate island, in the central
Philippines, has a total population
of 450,000 and had only one full
time missionary when the Var-bergs
arrived in 1960. Major evan-gelistic
campaigns were held in
several cities. Naw four churches
Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Lindstedt,
alumni of Bethel, have been mis-sionaries
to the Philippines since
1954. Their most recent work has
been teaching at the Baptist Theo-logical
College on Cebu. The aim
of this college is to train Filipinos
in Christian leadership.
Though native Philippines are
doing much of the preaching and
teaching, Rev. Lindstedt feels that
the mission field is still a chal-lenge
to today's young people. He
feels that many young adults no
longer consider foreign missions
as a challenging growing work. In
the Philippines though, Lindstedt
feels that there are many areas
which are still almost totally ne-glected.
Sixty percent of the population in
the Philippines is under the age of
20. This large percentage has al-have
been established and Rev.
Varberg has also been involved in
construction of church buildings
and missionary residences.
Study of the local language, Mas-batinio,
was necessary for an ef-fective
work on this island. Rev.
Varberg supervised the translation
and publication of the first evan-gelical
book, a hymnal, to be print-ed
in that language.
With the necessary funds and
help, Rev. Varberg hopes to soon
be able to translate and print some
tracts and the Gospel of St. John.
The Varbergs also helped to es-tablish
a youth center in the Mas-bate
Baptist Church, which is with-in
a few blocks of four colleges,
five high schools and six elemen-tary
schools. As many as 1,500
youth have "checked-in" at the
center per week for bookstore,
library and study area services
as well as various recreational
facilities.
Aside from his direct missionary
tasks, Rev. Varberg served as a
member of the counsel and guid-ance
committee of the Masbate
Community Council and served a
year as treasurer of the council.
An honor was given him recently
by this secular group when they
most been neglected by the mission-aries.
Rev. Lindstedt feels that it is
vital to reach this segment of the
population soon, especially with the
growing popularity of Communism.
Though Communism is illegal in
some of the major universities, its
underground power is becoming
very influential.
Besides teaching, Mrs. Lindstedt
has been active in evangelistic
work throughout the Philippines.
Mrs. Lindstedt is usually busy
teaching their five children in the
morning and teaching at the Col-lege
in the afternoon.
Rev. Lindstedt came to Bethel in
1946 after living in China where
his parents were missionaries. He
is now looking forward to return-ing
and renewing the challenge of
the mission field.
recognized him as a "son of Mas-bate"
and requested his permanent
assignment there.
Rev. Varberg's first experience
in missions came between his jun-ior
and senior years at Bethel
College, when he spent the summer
working with the Home Mission
Board in Mountain View, Alaska.
Bergfalk
Assam
Helen Bergfalk was a thirty year
old school teacher when she left
the states and went to the North
Bank in Assam, India. There, dur-ing
her first years in India, she
taught school for missionary and
other children in Darjeeling after
her experience in the states.
Miss Bergfalk did not feel a
real definite call to leave Minneso-ta,
where she had been teaching
in small rural grade schools, and
go to India. However, she saw the
need there and decided to go, feel-ing
that the Lord would close the
doors if He wanted her to stay at
home or go elsewhere.
The major focus of her work
during the twenty years she spent
in 'India has been literature, in-cluding
such things as Sunday and
Bible school lessons for both chil-dren
and adults.
Working most recently in Rowta
before the Assam field was closed,
Miss Bergfalk was often alone, the
only missionary in that vicinity.
Due to lack of good equipment and
materials, she spent many long and
tedious hours running literature
off by hand, gluing together small
flannel graph figures, and so on
with an endless variety of often
menial tasks.
Since her return from India,
Miss Bergfalk has been involved in
deputation work. In the future her
time will be devoted to a continu-ation
of the literature work she
had previously been doing in As-sam,
although she will remain in
the states.
"Missionary statesman" could
well describe Rev. J. F. Shepherd,
pastor, educator, and former mis-sionary,
who will be a featured
speaker during Bethel's World
Missions Week.
A man who is well known among
missionaries and is conversant with
the live issues regarding the mis-sion
of the church, Rev. Shepherd
is also known for his understand-ing
of and approach to student
concerns.
Rev. Shepherd received his bach-elor
of science degree from Hart-ford
Seminary Foundation, his mas-ters
degree from Kennedy School
of Missions and his bachelor of
divinity from Bethel Theological
Seminary. He also attended the
Missionary Training Institute a t
Nyack, N. Y., and earned his S.T.M.
from Union Theological Seminary.
He has been a visiting lecturer
at the School of World Mission of
Fuller Theological Seminary, and
was one of 10 principal speakers
at the Congress on Church's World
Wide Mission in 1966 at Wheaton,
He was a pastor in New Haven,
Conn., before going to China in
1946 as a missionary of The Chris-tian
and Missionary Alliance. When
the missionaries had to leave
China, he went to the Philippine
Islands where he taught in Ebene-zer
Bible School in Zamboanga.
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Lachler have
completed three four-year terms
as missionaries in Brazil. Their
main concern is with the young
people and college students.
The Lord has led them to work
with the Brazilian Inter-Varsity,
which is an interdenominational or-ganization
very similar to Inter-
Varsity in United States. Talking
and working among the students
has created many opportunities for
the Lachlers. They have gained an
understanding of the students and
their needs.
Also, they have found that be-ing
involved as students them-selves,
they have been accepted by
the young people on a level which
gives them close ties and conse-quently,
their approach can be
more effective.
Although the Catholic church is
still the predominant religious
group in Brazil, the Lachlers have
found that the relationship be-tween
Catholics and Protestants
is changing. The primary reason
for this is that the Brazilian con-stitution
now contains a clause
which guarantees religious free-dom
for every Brazilian.
In their work among students,
they have found that Catholics are
much easier to work with. Cath-olics
are becoming more tolerant
as the church is liberalized. This
gives the missionaries opportuni-ties
to present the gospel on an in-tellectual
level to people who are
sensitive to religion.
In many ways the Brazilian re-sents
the American in his coun-
Rev. J. F. Shepherd
Back in the United States he
served as chairman of the Missions
department of St. Paul Bible Col-lege.
While again in the Philip-pines,
he was asked to direct the
Jaffray School of Missions at Ny-ack,
N.Y.
For the past two years Rev.
Shepherd has served as personnel
secretary of the Latin America
Mission. He recently became pas-tor
of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance Church at Cranford, N.J.
try. This seems to be a result of
the American's subconscious effort
to change the culture of South
America to the way he wants it.
As Mr. and Mrs. Lachler have
experienced, the way to reach the
people of that land is to become
part of them and accept their cul-ture.
They have found this ap-proach
to be much more effective
than a preaching ministry.
Their plans for furlough include
further schooling, graduate work,
and deputation. They will be re-turning
to Brazil next summer and
are at the present time formula-ting
plans for their mission to the
Brazilian people.
Karl Lachler
Linstedts -- Philippines
Lachlers -- Brazil
Missionary Sketches
Rev. Gustave Tillman and Rev. George Johnson contemplate
the future opportunities and needs in the wide-open field of
the Philippine Islands. The field of Assam, India, where Rev.
Johnson served for 17 years, was closed recently to several
missionary families by order of the Indian government.
George Johnsons -- Assam
"Confidence that one has done
his part and faith that the Lord
will carry on the work and lead
to other open fields has helped
to encourage the conference mis-sionaries
recently expelled from
Assam, India," according to Rev.
George S. Johnson.
Rev. Johnson served for about 17
years as an educational mission-ary
on the North Bank of Assam
after earning his bachelor of sci-ence
degree in education from the
University of Minnesota, in addi-tion
to his bachelor of arts from
Bethel College and his bachelor of
divinity from the Seminary.
Besides principalship of Bible
Schools in Assam, Rev. Johnson
has in recent years been especially
interested in literature work and
developing and translating simple
"It was a drastic change from
the western culture to an oriental
culture," said Rev. J. Warren John-son,
who was commissioned as one
of the first conference missionaries
to Assam, India, in 1946. Rev. and
Mrs. Johnson were in an evangel-istry
on the North Bank of the
Brahmaputra River, and Rev. John-son
also served as administrator
of the Baptist Christian Hospital
in Tezpur.
In the summer of 1967 the John-sons
were one of three missionary
familes ordered to leave Assam as
part of the government's program
of "Indianization" of missions.
They were then requested by the
Board of Foreign Missions to go to
Ethiopia for a short time to assist
in missionary work there.
In Ethiopia Rev. Johnson began
by working with the business end
of the mission. He then served as
Warren Johnson
Bible correspondence courses for
the Assamese Christians.
His wife, the former Dorothy
Drotz, who also attended Bethel
Seminary and served in Assam for
two years before they were mar-ried,
has been a nurse in charge
of mission dispensaries in Assam.
In their deputation work since
the Johnsons returned to the U.S.
in August, they have constantly
emphasized the need for prayer
for strength and Christian leader-ship
of those nationals who have
been entrusted to continue their
work in hospitals, Bible schools
and other areas where missionar-ies
have sowed the seed in that
country.
Rev. Johnson plans to work to-ward
his master of divinity at
Bethel.
pastor of Christ Chapel in Addis
Ababa, and later went to Ambo
where he assisted with the admin-istration
of the Door of Life Hospi-tal,
as well as taking part in the
local church.
After more than 20 years on a
foreign mission field, one would
expect a re-assignment to another
to be a difficult adjustment. Sur-prisingly,
Rev. Johnson said there
were many similar culture patterns
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Urban action
continued from page 1
ban communities such as the Near
North Side of Minneapolis or the
Dale-Selby area of St. Paul. This
part of the program will probably
include two semesters. The final
phase will be evaluation of the
program and transition of the ef-fort
to students entering the pro-gram
for the next year.
From this basis the new study
committee will define in detail an
urban program and establish the
structure necessary to implement
it.
SUI members who drafted the
proposal were Dennis Olson, Larry
Day, Jan Wyma, Maurice Zaffke
and Arnie Bergstrom. Bergstrom
chaired the committee while Day
coordinated efforts to implement
the decisions of the group.
Several faculty members were
involved in the group, especially
Richard Steinhaus from the Sociol-ogy
Department and Richard Eric-son
from the Social Work Depart-ment.
Rev. and Mrs. Gus Tillman rep-resent
the Conference missionar-ies
to the Philippine Islands dur-ing
Bethel's World Missions Week.
The Tillmans are both former Beth-el
students and Rev. Tillman gradu-ated
from Bethel Seminary in 1954.
At the time of graduation Till-man
and his wife, Mary, still didn't
know if it was God's will for them
to become foreign missionaries.
Looking back to those months of
indecision Rev. Tillman says "I
was hesitant, because so many had
promised to follow the Lord and
failed."
During the fall of 1955 on a
trip to Minnesota, Rev. Tillman
felt a deep conviction that God
wanted him to be a missionary,
When he returned home he found
that his wife had had a similar
experience on the same day. And
so the Tillmans made the decision
to follow the Lord to a foreign
mission field.
The Tillmans were appointed by
the Board of Foreign Missions Sep-
Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Kern have
been on the mission field in Ethio-pia
since September, 1964. They
spent ten months intensively study-ing
the local Amharic language.
Because Amharic is so different
from English, they found that be-coming
accustomed to it was quite
difficult, and that it takes hard
work and discipline to learn Am-haric.
Motivation was found to be
most important when mastering a
new language.
Rev. Kern taught at the Dresser
Bible School, assisted in the nurses
training program of the Door of
Life Hospital, and also taught at
the yearly Rainy Season Bible
School. This Bible school project
covered all the mission stations in
Ethiopia. Mrs. Kern worked with
the women in the nearby areas be-sides
teaching their own children.
The type of religion that is com-monly
practiced in Ethiopia is
increasingly popular in the United
States and European countries.
Many famous personalities have
traveled to the East for meditation
and consultation with various spiri-tual
mystics.
In Ethiopia, it is common for
people of all classes to seek out
a spirit medium and present him
with gifts of flowers, grain, or
cattle. Often a long pilgrimage
is made to the "Dumfa," not in
small groups, but rather large pro-
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Friday, November 15, 1968
tember 16, 1958, and they began
their first term in the Philippines
seven months later. For the past
four years the Tillman family has
been the only Baptist missionaries
on the island of Bohol.
A lack of personnel presents a
big problem to the Tillmans as
they work in the Philippines. And
Rev. Tillman says that one of his
main purposes of this furlough is
to recruit more workers.
The Tillmans found that their
biggest personal problem in the
Philippines was adapting to the
cultural shock. But after living
there for some time, they learned
that many of the differences were
beneficial.
Rev. Tillman has some advice to
offer to Bethel students consider-ing
missionary work. First, "pre-pare
yourself by getting a good
academic background," and second-ly,
"get some in service experi-ence.
Past pracitcal experience with
your talents is invaluable."
Gerald Kern
cessions which are colorful in
dress as well as in song.
At the present the Kerns are re-siding
in St. Paul and continuing
their studies. They are also taking
part in the deputation program
among the churches of the Baptist
General Conference.
Dana Larson
Larsons --
Assam
Rev. Dana Larson, who has been
a missionary to the people of As-sam,
India, for 18 years, will leave
the states in December for lan-guage
study in Costa Rica before
he and his family will be re-assigned
to Argentina.
Rev. and Mrs. Larson and their
eight children had lived at Dhemaji
in the Lakhimpur District on the
North Bank of Assam. There they
endeavored to establish a Christian
community through much informal
contact with people in markets,
shops, homes and local places of
worship.
Churches were formed at Goga-mukh
and Benenagora where they
also maintained two dispensaries,
which are also leper clinics, to
supply the physical and spiritual
needs of many tribal people.
Although the Larsons were a-mong
the missionary families or-dered
by the government to leave
the country, they remain optimis-tic
about the continued progress
of the mission work in Assam un-der
the competent national leaders.
When they returned to the Unit-ed
States last year, one of the
Larson's daughters, Betty, stayed
in Assam to complete her high
school work. Their son, Tim, is a
sophomore at Bethel College.
Rev. Larson expects to be as-signed
to evangelism work in one
of the three provinces of Argentina
where conference missionaries are
working, and anticipates working
with the Crusade of the Americas
movement in that country.
Warren Johnsons switch fields
Tillmans see need in Philippines
Kerns -- Ethiopia
the CLARION
Page 5
Bethel's version of "student as nigger" (Editorial, can't)
(continued from page 2)
prescribed bounds for independent thought—stay within them
and you're secure and "good."
At Bethel, the student as nigger is the result of a misdi-rected
benevolence that finds a paternalistic outlet. But a
growing willingness by many administrators, faculty members,
and students to meet respectfully as mature individuals on
equal ground lends an atmosphere of hope to the future. If
Bethel is to have an effective Christian impact on society, all
members of the community truly need to be "one in Christ
Jesus."
After all, students are people, too.
Day and Olson consult Steinhaus on ideas for involving students in urban affairs.
Page 6
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Friday, November 15, 1968
The Beatles, disguised as members of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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A YOUNG INSPIRING SHOW
FRED WARING
AND
ALL THE PENNSYLVANIANS
(50 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS)
MINNEAPOLIS AUDITORIUM
WEDNESDAY -
NOVEMBER 20 - 8:00 P.M.
Picture a movie musical with
your favorite stars in the leads.
Frank Sinatra and Julie Andrews
will have to do. Frank and Julie
part company after a budding ro-mance
turns sour. Five years pass.
During that time both Frank and
Julie realize that it was the sour
that was phoney—the romance was
real.
But the two have lost track of
each other, apparently for good.
Then, in a beautiful night club in
New York (or Paris or London)
Frank sees Julie across the room
and with the help of a 42-piece
orchestra, breaks into "Some En-chanted
Evening."
Now forget about what Frank
and Julie are doing for a minute
and look around at the restaur-ant.
Hold that image in the back of
your mind while you imagine that
you have taken Snelling Avenue
to the freeway, the freeway to the
airport, and that you have then
gone fifteen miles further west
and five miles further south to
the relatively rural area of Min-nesota
which includes the towns of
Shakopee, Chaska, and Chanhassen.
Now look around again.
It seems practically impossible,
but out there in the unlikely town
of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is a res-taurant-
theatre-night club that
should have starred in that musi-cal.
It's the Chanhassen Frontier,
an infant of six months that prom-ises
to pull the Twin Cities' enter-tainment
center of gravity a good
deal to the southwest.
The Frontier's main attraction is
the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre,
which seats 600 people at tables
amphitheater-fashion in a half cir-cle
around a stage. The doors open
at 6:15 p.m. for dining. If the
"roast sirloin of choice beef in
mushroom sauce" is representa-tive,
the food is excellent. Every-one
is supposed to have finished
eating by 8:15 for the beginning
of the play.
The current production is "Ar-senic
and Old Lace," a comedy
about a family that couldn't quite
bring itself to produce anyone sane.
Insanity more than runs in the fam-ily;
it "practically gallops."
Grandfather Brewster was a mad
scientist. Teddy Brewster thinks
he's Teddy Roosevelt. Jonathan is
a sadist who has been turned into
a double for Boris Karlof by a
drunk plastic surgeon. But the
stars of the show are two elderly
sponsers, Abby and Martha Brew-ster,
who bring peace to lonely
old men by giving them elderberry
wine spiked with arsenic.
The play is done surprisingly
professionally. Only a couple of
characters and they are minor, are
noticeably out of place on stage.
John Hoyt does a very good job
as Jonathan, and Carol Huston and
Jan Maddox are even better as the
lovably murderous old maids. To-gether
the dinner and the play
make an extremely entertaining
evening.
When the play is over and you
have been entertained, walk
around and prepare yourself to
be awed. The theater takes up
only a fraction of the space in the
Frontier complex.
There's the Downstairs, and
there's the Bronco Bar, and there's
cont'd on page 7
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE character Teddy, left, is
played by Tom Sherohman, with Carol Houston, center,
and Jan Maddux, right, as the two gentle but deadly
spinsters who spike their elderberry wine with arsenic.
Waring brings 50 year history
to Minneapolis performance
Fifty-two years ago in Tyrone,
Pennsylvania, a Penn State Engi-neering
student named Fred War-ing,
his brother Tom, and two
friends formed a dance band. Two
banjos, a piano and a set of drums
wouldn't get many bookings now,
but musical tastes were different
fifty-two years ago.
The band got its big break when
it was hired to play in the overflow
ballroom at a J-hop in Detroit,
Michigan. They were so impres-sive
that everyone at the hop tried
to get from the big ballroom into
the little one.
After that the group grew quick-ly,
both in popularity and in size,
and it is now billed as "Fred War-ing
and the Pennsylvanians," which
includes a 20-piece orchestra and
a choral group. Waring always tries
to keep his show contemporary;
it now ranges from popular to semi-classical.
He will be giving a concert at
8 p.m. November 20 at the Minne-apolis
Auditorium. Tickets will be
$3.50, $4.50, and $5.50, but Bethel
students will get a discount. Con-tact
P.O. 582 for details.
In Tanuary, 1964, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
hit the top of the charts and boys started to
take the grease and the frills out of their hair.
By spring the Beatles had accomplished the re-culous
feat of putting five of their songs in the
op ten at the same time, and the people who were
saying that the Beatles couldn't last soon began
to be afraid that they would.
They did ; but they have lost the innocence of
at big beat and become one of the biggest in-fluences
on the pop culture of the sixties. They
freed /mil from crewcuts and business suits. They
made a permanent mark on movie-making with
"A Hard Day's Night." "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band" was the first real indication
that rock and roll would turn out to be signifi-cant.
Now they have focused their sights on the
an'mated cartoon, and will soon release the movie-length
"Yellow Submarine." The film tells the
story of Pepperland, a land whose main resources
are "sun, music, laughter, and love."
But Pepperland is attacked by the dastardly
Blue Meanies, "led by a music-loather, allergic to
love." Pepperland's Lord High Mayor asks Old
Fred, conductor of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band, to go for help in the Yellow
Submarine.
He ends up in Liverpool, home of John, Paul,
George, and Ringo, who go with him to Pepper-land
and conquer the Meanies, restoring love, song,
and color to the ravaged countryside.
It sounds like a beautiful movie, but it is a
movie nevertheless and this is the Bethel College
Clarion, so why the story ?
Here's the epilogue to the paperback of "Yel-low
Submarine :"
Long live Pepperland.
But
There are other Pepperlands to be found.
Here, there, anywhere.
Listen, and when you hear :
Lovely day, isn't it ?
Be my guest.
May I help you ?
Let's not argue . . . etc.
You'll know you've found one.
Please remember.
For every Pepperland you encounter—
You can be sure there are Meanies in the
vicinity.
Oh, they may not be blue, orange, green,
purple—
Whatever their color, they despise friendship,
love, music.
And they'll do whatever they can to stamp
them out.
They have got to be held back.
Who will protect your own private
Pepperland ?
Only you can say that.
End of epilogue. Starting next week there will
be a column in the Clarion that will attempt to
brief you on upcoming and just-past entertain-ment
events. It will be called, in humble tribute
to the Beatles, "Protection for Pepperland."
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Annual Pops concert takes
listener on worldwide trip
"Around the World in Ninety
Minutes" is the theme of Bethel's
annual Pops concert, which will be
held 8 p.m. Friday in the field-house.
The band concert will fea-ture
a wide spectrum of music de-signed
for entertainment and re-laxation.
Music from many nations will
give the listener a dashing panor-amic
view of the world, and the
program 'will include numerous se-lections
by European composers.
Among them will be: Jean Sibel-ius'
"Finlandia," "Clair de Lune"
by Debussy, and "Colonel Bogey
March" by Kenneth Alford.
Representing Russian music are
compositions from two national
composers as the band plays Mous-by
Chuck Myrbo
Rock and roll has come a long
way since Ricky Nelson, in the last
five minutes of "Ozzie and Har-riet,"
sang 'Hello, Mary Lou" to a
swaying, swooning crowd of high
school girls. The Doors gave a
concert Sunday night in the Min-neapolis
Auditorium, with lyrics
that might have turned Mary Lou
off, and a sound that would have
turned her on.
That sound is the product of
three musicians: John Densmore
on the drums, Robby Krieger on
the guitar, and Ray Manzarek on
the keyboard. There is no bass
guitar. Manzarek provides the bass
by playing a piano bass with his
right hand while he plays the or-gan
with his left hand and his
feet.
The sound is complete, and it
is powerful. It is loud, but it is
Chanhassen
from page 6
the Courtyard, each of which is
big enough and cool enough to be
a separate establishment. And
there are several areas that aren't
finished yet. There is no place like
that place within 500 miles of
this place.
Tickets (which include the meal
and the play) are $7.45. Allowing
for tips and gas, you can get by
for about $20.00. As a struggling
college student, you won't be able
to make a habit of it, but you
should do it at least once. It's
well worth it.
"Arsenic" will run for one more
week, and then "The Fantasticks"
will open November 20. There are
performances Wednesday through
Sunday. Call 4744181 well in ad-vance
for tickets.
sourgsky's "Hopak" and Gliere's
"Russian Sailor's Dance." The nov-elty
number, "Pachinko," will take
the listener to Japan. "Pachinko"
is the name of a pinball game cur-rently
popular there.
After a worldwide, trip, the last
stop will be the United States with
music from Mancini followed by
selections from the Broadway mu-sical
hit "I Do, I Do."
Ticket prices for the concert
are $1.00 for adults and 50c for
students. Refreshments during in-termission
will be provided by the
sponsors of the concert, the Bethel
Auxiliary, for a small fee.
never just noise, and it never
drowns out the words. They were
improvising much of the time; they
were always together.
The Doors as just three instru-mentalists
would be fabulous, but
they wouldn't have packed out the
Auditorium. They're a four ring
circus, and the main attraction is
Jim Morrison, singer and song
writer. He is sensual, and he is
(though the word has gotten old
through overuse) satanic. He walks
on the wild side, and during his
concerts he manages to bring his
listeners with him. He is a mys-tery.
He was vulgar Sunday night (he
prefers the word primitive), and
it would be easy to dismiss him as
"just an animal," but that doesn't
work. There is a tremendous pow-er
in the Door's songs that an ani-mal
could transmit to an audience,
but it's not a power that an ani-mal
could have put there.
Compare his crudeness of Sunday
night with this portion of an es-say
he wrote for "Eye" magazine:
"Ask anyone what sense he would
preserve above all others. Most
would say sight, forfeiting a mil-lion
eyes in the body for two in
the skull. Blind, we could live and
possibly discover wisdom. Without
Jones schedules
senior recital
Sharon Jones, music education
major, will present her senior re-cital
Saturday, November 16, in the
Seminary Hall Chapel. Her major
emphases are cello and voice.
She will be accompanied by Kar-in
Wickman and Linda Dow. John
Hopkins will play several selec-tions
on the clarinet.
Selections from Miss Jones' pro-gram
include Bach and Saint-Saens
for cello and Schutz, Bach, and
Wolf for voice. The program will
begin at 8 p.m.
Fish show review
The North Star Aquarists have
set up their initial show at Har
Mar and it is a whopper. The Har
Mar Exotic Fish Show began Mon-day,
Nov. 11, and will run 'til 6
p.m., Saturday night, Nov. 16.
For those unfamiliar with fish
and who have stereotyped ideas of
Perch and Pike, the exhibition
promises to be the most fascina-ting
and interesting display that
you could wish for.
The North Star Aquarists are
only six months old and have a
limited membership of hardwork-ing
hobbyists. They have set up
a display of many categories with
ribbons and trophies going to most
touch, we would turn into hunks
of woods."
Morrison comes off as a contra-diction.
The contradiction can best
be explained by a statement he
once made:
"I think the highest and the low-est
points are the important ones;
all the points in between are, well,
in between. I want freedom to try
everything—I guess I want to ex-perience
everything at least once."
He hit both extremes Sunday
night. The low you'll have to get
from a good friend who saw the
concert. At the other end was
"When the Music's Over," a beau-tiful
piece of theater that took the
Doors and their audience on a fif-teen-
minute high.
Friday, November 15, 1968
by Wally Borner
of the entrants. The show was
opened to anyone with fish and al-most
every imaginable kind is rep-resented.
The Betta class is one of the
most interesting. These colorful
fish would tear each other apart
but can live peaceably with other
fish. Each bowl has one Betta and
pieces of paper are between so that
they can't even see each other.
A Catfish may be common to
most, but the show exhibits an
albino catfish. A couple back-strokes
away is an electric Cat-fish.
One of the classes in competi-tion
is the novelty class where
anything goes. The exhibitor se-lects
a theme and his fish repre-
Following the first issuance of
1968-69 Coeval magazine this past
weekend, editorial staff members
are planning for the next issue,
which will be released before
Christmas break.
Contributors are urged, by the
deadline date of November 25, to
contact in person or via their box
numbers the Coeval staff members:
editor Esther Pearson (Box 148),
Bruce Lawson (Box 449), Bette
Dumse (Box 166), and Jeff Loom-is
(Box 553).
To encourage renewed activity
among contributors in the areas of
the CLARION Page 7
sent that theme. There is a west-ern
town set up with Red-eyed
Tetras in the saloon and Silver
Dollars in the gambling hall. An-gels
among the Clouds have a set
up of angel figurines among clouds
with Angel fish and White Cloud
fish swimming among them.
In some classes, fish are judged
alone, and in others, the back-ground,
plants, rocks, and fish are
combined to determine the ribbon
placings.
This may be the last fish show
in the area until at least Febru-ary,
and no matter what you think
of fish now, you will be ready to
buy guppies after viewing these
most exotic fish.
visual arts and music, a $20 prize
will be offered for the best work
submitted in these areas. The work
should be photographed and in-clude
an identifying sheet contain-ing
name of contributor and title.
All work for subsequent issues
must be that of students presently
enrolled at Bethel College.
Anyone who did not receive a
Coeval in his post office box may
find them available on the Clarion
distribution table in the Student
Center. Those who do not wish
to keep theirs are urged to place
them on the same table.
Doors concert Review
Morrison, powerful sound impress audience
Reviewer raves on rippling beauties
COEVAL prepares new edition;
rewards visual arts, music work
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by Parad I. Selost
I remember the day Bethel raised the cost of
washing clothes from ten cents to a quarter. Af-ter
all, it was only last summer. And if you think
you've got problems now with another Minnesota
winter at the door, and you stuck with a Califor-nia
wardrobe or a weak car battery, let me tell
you about my clothes washing problem.
In case you're confused as to why I'm wash-ing
clothes in Como Lake and dreading the corn-ing
freeze, let me explain, and the best way to
explain is to start from the beginning, in Falcon
Manor during early July.
It was one of those insipid Saturday mornings
that sort of unobtrusively seeps into your bedroom
after a long Friday night. I hesitantly awoke, feel-ing
like I should have been up three hours ago but
had somehow decided to sleep all day.
After several futile attempts of trying to be
absorbed by my mattress, I managed to get up,
remembering that I'd better wash clothes. Shoul-dering
my laundry bag, I drowsily stumbled into
the laundry room, digging a dime out of the deep
recesses of my right front pocket. I dumped my
clothes into the old, battered washing machine and,
fumbling with my dime, awkwardly slipped it
into the machine's quarter slot . . . QUARTER
SLOT ! Panic gripped my heart as the dime tum-bled
through the gaping hole, tinkling melodiously
as it fell on the floor and rolled under the washing
machine.
What will they think of next ? Visions of pay
toilets in the college building and dormitories
raced wildly through my mind as I vainly attempt-ed
to retrieve my dime out of the accumulated
filth under the machine. Realizing, however, that
the financial aid implications of pay toilets would
make such a move unfeasible, I quickly ban-ished
those thoughts, morbidly dwelling on more
likely possibilities like parking meters or water
vending machines.
Giving up my valiant efforts to retrieve my
dime, I got up off the floor, ramming my head
into the protruding coin apparatus of the washer.
Rubbing the back of my head, I wondered what
the psychological implications of losing 25c a crack
in Bethel's occasionally malfunctioning machines
would be.
I had always good naturedly considered a lost
dime as an "over and above" contribution to a
worthwhile cause — a small struggling Christian
college in need of support; however, no one likes
to see their generosity used to unfair advantage,
and I wasn't too keen on being milked for two-bits
per malfunction myself.
Well, the school must remain financially sol-vent,
I conceded as I repacked my laundry bag
and headed for King Koin where you get twenty-five
cents of washing for a quarter.
Now I want to make it clear that I have no
animosity towards the fine people upstairs that
make decisions on such things as the cost of
washing clothes. They have to cope with such
things as inflation, and they have pointed out to
me that it costs a quarter everywhere else to
wash clothes, that such a change here was pain-ful
because it was long overdue, and that the
quarter charge was necessary if Bethel were to
continue to provide top quality laundry facilities
and services.
Of course, there is no question that Bethel does
not have two bit machines. Obviously, they are
not that good. If you can wash clothes at a
laundromat for a quarter, you ought to be able
to use Bethel machines for ten or fifteen cents.
Well, I have digressed, so back to the story.
Having already financed three years of Bethel,
some of my senior friends and myself just couldn't
afford to wash clothes at twenty-five cents a load.
So we bought a big box of Cold Power, economy
size, and headed for Como Lake.
Things have worked out fairly well since then,
until now, when cold weather finally threatens
to freeze us out. The wash hasn't been as white
or bright as mother's, and it smells a little, but
it's better than paying a quarter for Bethel ma-chines.
Our only real problems struck us when
we attempted to use Valentine Lake on the new
campus.
My good friend Jim got three bloodsuckers and
I ruined my Sunday white shirt with algae stains.
In addition, we had to air our clothes out for
three days to get rid of the stench.
Oh well, pollution is becoming somewhat of a
status symbol these days anyway, and if Bethel
is going to keep up with the Joneses, it might
as well have pollution as well as twenty-five cent
washing machines.
Although the next few months look bleak to
those of us who have been washing clothes in
Como Lake, let me tell you that all of us are
facing the future with a firm jaw and unshakeable
determination to make the best of the situation
in spite of seemingly insurmountable odds. We
will all struggle on to the bitter end as long as
we can break the ice and replenish our supply of
Cold Power.
by Dan Johnson
For those unsuccessful pheasant hunters this fall there still is
a splendid opportunity where you are assured of a full limit of game.
Depending upon your finances and leave of absence from school you
can hunt anytime from October through January with favorable weather
conditions.
The sport involves the hunter, two shotguns, and one assistant who
reloads as fast as the hunter can shoot. The challenge is the famed
Red Legged Spanish partridge which is typically found in the higher,
rugged plateau area surrounding Madrid, Spain.
The Red Leg possesses outstanding virtues as a game bird because
it adapts itself to the wind conditions and terrain. Whereas the hunter
must drive forward over the ground searching, the Red Leg can easily
hide or sweep low over the ridges and gulleys. The wind easily carries
the Red Leg above and beyond the range of the hunter.
But the Red Leg is numerous and the hunters are spread out
evenly so the hunt is successful but only after a fair challenge. An
average hunter would get one bird to five shells. With experience and
quick shooting the expert will claim one bird to two shells.
This is most difficult when the Red Leg approaches in small conveys.
It is a matter of reflex action for both the hunter and the reloader.
This is why the Spanish Red Leg has become popular with its variety
of challenges that it offers for the hunter.
From the Madrid airport department every Friday during the sea-son
is a complete package tour and hunting arrangements for a nine
day shoot. They have provided everything possible to insure a good
hunt if you just provide the correct number of pestas.
Depending upon your accommodations and number in the group the
price varies from $875 to $1,552 plus air fare to and from Madrid. See
your campus travel agent for details.
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Coach Shields reviews past season, Full slate of activity spotlights
looks optimistically towards future opening of intramural volleyball
by Jim Youngquist
The Bethel Royals completed the
1968 football season with a 0-8-1
record. To those who worked hard
during the season it had to be a
disappointing season.
When asked the reason for the
winless season, Coach Shields gave
six main reasons. First, the Royals
were physically smaller than all
their opponents. Numerous injur-ies
were a second factor. Key men
were lost during the season includ-ing
Tom Moline in the very first
game and later Jack Campbell.
Coach Shields cited the "thin
quality" at certain positions as a
third factor. A fourth reason was
the lack of effort on the part of a
few players. A fifth and probably
most important was the schedule.
It was by far the toughest schedule
for any Bethel team thus far.
Commenting on this Shields said,
"We feel we will never improve
the football program by playing
poor teams. The only way is to
hang tough with the good teams."
A sixth cause and one that a ma-jority
of students are responsible
for is a general lack of enthusiasm.
Looking at the final statistics for
the year, the weakest point was
obviously the defensive line. Op-ponents
totaled 2,318 yards rushing
on the year while Bethel managed
a mere 538. Bethel led slightly
in total passing yardage with 930
The long elusive 600 series fin-ally
was attained during the even-ing
of Nov. 12 as two bowlers
knocked down enough pins to qual-ify
themselves for the "600" club.
Duane Peterson of Falcon show-ed
consistency with a 203,203, and
201 for a total of 607 pins.
Jerry Loomis started the night
less spectacularly as he rolled a
169 and 177 but then came back
with a season high of 256 for the
final game to push him up to a
602.
New Dorm beat Falcon in the
process 4-0. Off Campus also took
four from Third New.
(The standings below are as of
Nov. 5. The order is correct though
the team points have changed.)
The bowling standings up to the
week of Nov. 5 were extremely
complicated when Second Old and
Third New rolled a tie, 654 pins
apiece. Points are scored by games
won and total pins for the three
games, thus giving a possible four
points per game.
to the opponents' 901 yards. In
total offense, the opponents with
3,219 yards more than doubled
the Royals total of 1,468 yards.
Individual totals showed Al Se-lander
and Murray Sitte combin-ing
for 99 completions in 276 pass
attempts. Selander completed 79
of 219 for 708 yards and 2 touch-downs.
Sitte hit on 20 of 57 for
222 yards and a single TD.
Rushing, Barry Anderson led
with 132 yards in 75 carries. Don
Swanson with 115 yards and Pete
Roemer with 104 yards were the
only others to hit the 100 yard
mark.
Dave Pound led all pass receiv-ers
with 29 interceptions for 359
yards. Jim Wessman followed with
24 receptions and 240 yards. Mur-ray
Sitte netted 135 yards.
Punting chores were handled by
Fred Swedberg throughout the
season. Averaging over 40 yards for
the first few games, Swedberg
tailed off slightly in the rain
soaked games but still managed
a 35.8 yard average. He totaled 59
punts with a long of 56 yards.
Fred also kicked the one and only
field goal of the sesason.
Bethel totaled 76 points, averag-ing
8.4 points per game. Individual
scoring was led by Murray Sitte
with 18 points. Barry Anderson and
Al Selander each had 12 points.
Cal Harfst, who succeeded on 7 of
However, Third New also had a
member of Second New on their
team and thus points would be div-ided
up equally. One fourth point
would be given to each player per
game won.
The tie broke down the point
system into eighths. Technically,
Third New beat Second Old 3 1/2- 1/2.
Ron Skon and the boys, (three
non-Bethel students, but related to
the school in some way, shape or
form), won their first match of the
season as their handicap defeated
Off Campus 3-1.
New Dorm had a very off night,
but still squeaked by 4-0, the first
game by seven pins, as they defeat-ed
Off Campus Number 2.
Standings
New Dorm 1534
Off Campus 83/4
Third New 5 3/8
Second Old 41/2
New Dorm Number 2 2
Falcon 13/4
Second New 1 5/8
11 extra point kicks, had 7 points
to his credit. Scoring one touch-down
each were Dave Pound, Don
Swanson, Robb Watlov, and Jim
Wessman. Fred Swedberg account-ed
for the final 3 points with his
field goal.
Defensively, Bill Englund led
all tacklers with 59 tackles and 37
assists. Others with over 20 tackles
were Tom Swanson 51, Larry Van
Epps 50, Murray Sitte, 47, Barry
Anderson 47, Steve Bloom, 45, Bob
Olsen 32, Tim Weko 31, Greg Ek-bom
29, and Pete Roemer with 22.
Absent from the team next year
will be eight seniors. The greatest
loss will be the departure of Al
Selander who has led the Royals
at quarterback. Others leaving will
be Vaughn Ekbom, Bill Englund,
Jim Lindberg, Bill Malyon, Dave
Pearson, Ed Stone, and Don Swan-son.
As for next year, 31 squad men
will be returning, among them 20
lettermen. Coach Shields singled
out three freshmen, Robb Watlov,
Steve Bloom, and Keith Jung as
being good prospects for next
year's team.
Looking to next year Coach
Shields was very optimistic. On
the subject of recruiting, Shields
said, "For the first time we are
contacting all the high schools in
the state." On progress thus far
he commented, "We have met
with two groups of high school
coaches and thus far the response
has been good."
Wrapping up the season, Shields
summarized it in four words: "Dis-appointed
but not discouraged!"
Between intramural football and
studying mixed with countless
other activities,\ it hardly seemed
possible that I-M volleyball had
crept up upon us. It also hardly
seemed possible that the first night
brought forth a good turnout. A
psyched up team from Second Old
was the only one frustrated as the
New Dorm team, as could have
been expected, failed to show.
First Floor, the defending cham-pions,
showed up in full strength,
having enough men for two teams.
Third Old, fired up under the lead-ership
of Lou Duhon and Warren
Withrow, had the mob out in hopes
of an upset. They didn't quite
make it, however, as First Floor
took the match two games to one.
Off Campus, the leader in I-M
football, was almost knocked out
from
between the Assamese and the Ethi-opians.
As far as reception to Christian-ity
and the Word of God, Rev. John-son
said the two cultures were also
similar. Members of the establish-ed
religions, such as Hindu in As-sam
and Orthodox in Ethiopia,
were slow to respond. The primi-of
volleyball contention from the
beginning as they dropped the
first game to the Pit. However,
they staged a comeback and won
2-1.
Second New handily won over
Falcon 2-0. Apparently, the Falcon
boys were short of manpower be-cause
of a conflicting swimming
class and despite the aid of house
parent Wayne Erickson they could
not generate a win.
The Faculty contined its winning
ways as they dumped Third New
2-0. The Faculty has been loaded
with young blood this year in the
persons of Paul Andrusko and Dick
Steinhouse in particular and has
been effectively organized with a
winning attitude under the new Al
Glenn.
Two keglers boast 600 series
Uprooted missionary compares
Assamese, Ethiopian cultures
page 5
tive peoples generally seemed to
respond more readily.
The greatest adjustment to Rev.
Johnson came in the form of cli-mate.
The Ethiopian climate was
easier because of the 7,000-8,000
feet above sea level altitude, as
compared to the semi-tropical cli-mate
of India.
also ran 55 yards for a TD and
tossed touchdowns of 5 and 10
yards to Nordmark and Berggren
respectively.
STANDINGS
Off Campus 6-1
Second New 5-2
Faculty 5-2
Falcon 5-2
Third Old 4-3
Pit .4-3
Third New 3-5
First Floor 2-5
Second Old 2-6
New Dorm 0-8
Biorklund fills
coaching post
Jon Bjorklund, a senior from
Henning, Minnesota, is the new
Junior Varsity basketball coach.
A basketball letterman, Jon has
been plagued with bad legs dur-ing
his college basketball years,
and it was doubtful that he could
have played throughout this sea-son
without reinjury.
Head basketball coach Jack Tra-ger,
talked to Jon about the job
earlier this fall. While it isn't a
unique situation, this is the first
time that Bethel has had a stu-dent
filling a basketball coaching
role.
Jon plans on going into the coach-ing
profession which will make
this a very valuable experience
for him. According to coach Tra-ger,
Jon has a very good basket-ball
mind. Besides these personal
qualifications, one of the ideas be-hind
his selection is the possibility
of keeping him for more than one
year.
Trager thinks that Jon will do
a fine job, and he already has
done commendably for the first
two weeks of practice.
Page 10
the CLARION Friday, November 15, 1968
Off Campus squeaks past Falcon 1-0
victory shatters first place deadlock
In the most important game of 7-6 game. Their victims this time
the intramural season thus far were Second Old. Ron Carlson
Off Campus beat Falcon 1 to 0 in passed for 25 yards to Len Carlson
overtime. Off Campus scored the for the touchdown and then ran
point by gaining 60 yards on a for the extra point. Second Old
pass to Larry Johnson while Fal- came back on a pass to Wilzewske
con could only come up with 40 from Duddleston. They couldn't
yards on a pass interception by make the conversion, however, and
Arnie Bergstrom. lost their sixth game of the sea-
The game began with Falcon son.
moving the ball 30 yards in two New Dorm dominated their game
plays. It soon became the usual with Third New but, plagued by
defensive battle, however. During interceptions, couldn't cross the
regulation play Falcon had two goal line and lost 6-0. John Co-good
chances to score. Both times wan scored on a 55-yard pass from
they had a first and goal situation Kingsley for the game's only score.
and were stopped, once on downs That was the extent of Third
and the other time on an intercep- New's offense as New Dorm's
tion by Doug Carlson. three man rush of Randy Inouye,
Faculty edged Third Old 2-0 as Rod Larson, and Lynn Bergfalk
Gene Peterson caught the quarter- nailed the opposing quarterback
back in the end zone for a safety. time and again, with Bergfalk get-
The safety came early in the first ting to him seven times by the
half. Third Old theatened in the game's end.
second half as they had a first Second New spanked First Floor
and goal but fumbles and penalties 33-0 to hold on to a share of
saved the game for the offensively second place. John Olander and
lacking Faculty. Gary Hasselblad each scored on
The Pit won their second straight 20-yard interceptions. Hasselblad
Soccer club finishes
season with 8-2 win
The Bethel Soccer Club took the
field at Luther Seminary last Sat-urday
not knowing just what to
expect. They were to play Minne-apolis
School of Art, which would
be that school's first game.
But on the other hand, Bethel
had to play without Jon Nord-strom,
the goaltender and with-out
the ball control wizardry of
Dave Schmidt. Jon was sick and
Dave injured his knee in that
morning's I-M football action.
But Bethel handily defeated the
Art School by a score of 8-2. With-in
the first minute, Bethel moved
down the field and Lee Granlund
kicked the ball through the goal
for a quick lead. Two minutes la-ter,
Dale Lindwall scored to make
it look like a romp.
The first half was all Bethel. On
a few occasions, the scrappy oppon-ents
brought the ball down and a
Royal goalkeeper had to make a
save.
Bethel did lots of shifting. Af-ter
Pete Wicklund and Dale Lind-wall
scored goals three and four,
Tim Larson came up to score. The
scoring in the first half ended with
a hard shot off the foot of fullback
Jim Bussiere.
Bethel used about five different
players for goalie, but in the sec-
Action was fast and furious last Saturday morning
as intramural football competition swung into the home-stretch.
If Off Campus loses tomorrow, the season could
end in a four way tie for first.
Sidefiete
Symposium
by Wally Borner
Saturday night, at 7 p.m. in the Bethel gym, the Bethel
wrestling team will tangle with Macalester College. Doug King
will be coaching the Royals for his second season as he molds
what will be the best wrestling team Bethel has ever had.
Last year, King directed the team to an 8-10 record. Where-as
the team was weak in the lighter weights, this year the light
weights should prove to give a strong start to the Bethel match-es.
Doug Warring, a letterman from last year, will be joined
by freshmen Jeff Mourning and Lee Granlund.
Bob Olsen, Bethel's biggest winner in the last two years
will be joined by his brother Jim for the ensuing campaign.
Randy Inouye should add strength to the heavyweight class.
Besides Bob and Doug, returning lettermen Barry Ander-son
and Greg Ekbom will also be back.
Coach King mentioned that the squad was suffering from
a few football injuries which might hurt for awhile, however,
this year's team has the all around depth in each weight
class that it has lacked in the past.
Last year, wrestling became quite a spectator sport as a
crowd of over 300 showed up for the season's first match.
This year, with a vastly improved team, fan support should also
be better.
The Macalester coach states that they have one of their
better teams in the last few years. Just what that means, we
won't know until Saturday night when the Bethel grapplers
will be out to win their first meet of the season.
SPORTS CALENDAR
Friday, Nov. 15 - Thursday, Nov. 21
Nov. 15 Basketball, Pipers vs. Indiana-8:05 Home
Nov. 16 Bethel I-M Football-9:30 A.M.
Nov. 16 Wrestling, Bethel vs. Macalester-7:00 Home
Nov. 16 Hockey, North Stars vs. Los Angeles-8:05 Home
Nov. 16 Basketball, Pipers vs. Kentucky—Away
Nov. 17 Football, Vikings vs. Detroit-3:00 Home
Nov. 17 Hockey, North Stars vs. St. Louis-7:00 Away TV
NNoovv.. 1188 Women's Volleyball, Bethel vs. Concordia-7:00 Away
Bethel I-M Volleyball-7:45
Nov. 19 Basketball, Piuers vs. Denver—At Duluth
Nov. 20 Bethel I-M Volleyball-7:45
Nov. 20 Hockey, North Stars vs. Philadelphia-8:05 Home
and half, they settled down with
Tim Larson and Wally Borner
guarding the goal. Minneapolis
School of Art also managed to find
an adequate goaltender.
And with the addition of Tom
Page, the organizer of the Art
School's team, Bethel had a rough-er
second half. Tom broke the ice
and ruined Bethel's shutout as he
broke in and scored about ten min-utes
into the half.
Lee Graunlund scored his sec-ond
goal of the day when he put
a penalty shot into the right hand
corner of the goal.
Minneapolis School of Art came
out with a good exhibition of pass-ing
in the second half, which kept
Bethel from doing as much scor-ing
as in the first half. As with
their first goal, they scored later
in the game on a breakaway play
as they outran the Bethel defense
that had pulled up to mid-field.
Abe, a foreign student, who, along
with Tom, held the team together,
scored by sailing the ball into his
left hand corner.
Dale Lindwall scored the hat
trick with his third goal of the
game to end Bethel's scoring. The
8-2 win gave the Club a 2-4-1 rec-ord.
Jon Nordstrom makes an-other
save for the Royals.
Nordstrom lifts soccer fortunes
The soccer team ended their season last Saturday
with a 8-2 win over Minnneapolis School of Art.
The fortunes of Bethel's soccer
club during the past season have,
in many ways, rested upon goal-keeper
Jon Nordstrom. Though
Bethel's opponents have averaged
3.3 points a game to Bethel's 1,
Nordstrom has taken more punish-ment
and been called on to make
more saves than any opposing
goalie.
Jon's quick hands and diving
grabs have saved many goals from
being scored and his booming kicks
have been able to set up the ball
for the offense or at least keep it
away from him for a while longer.
He graduated from Minnehaha
Academy in 1967 and attended Cal-ifornia
Lutheran Bible School that
fall. Out west, Nordstrom didn't
have a school team to play on, but
played on a park board league.
Jon has been a resident of north
Minneapolis all his life and his soc-cer
career has kept him as a per-manent
goalkeeper. He is normally
(and naturally) scared when the
opposing team comes dribbling
toward him, but is "sold" on the
game.
As of yet, Jon is not sure of his
major, but is planning on going
into Seminary. Currently he is in-volved
in a folk-group on campus
and also has one of the leads in
the opera which will be performed
during the Festival of Christmas.
Jon feels that the future of soc-cer
at Bethel is really bright. This
year has helped and since beating
Augsburg, the outlook can only im-prove.
He thinks that it would be
even better if the team had the
support of the administration and
thus regular varsity status. "We
could have one of the better teams
in Minnesota," he commented.